Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33: the tailor confess…

What was the Sultan's instruction concerning the events of the day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: instruction, Sultan · What happens: be, concern, instruct · To what, where: events

This is exam question 1 of lesson 193 «Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33: the tailor confesses, the Sultan summons everyone, and Alnaschar dreams of riches» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sultan	det
4	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 instruction	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Sultan	case
6	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 instruction	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 events	det
9	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 concerning	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 events	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the Sultan's instruction		tree rules
2	concern	gerund	the Sultan's instruction not said here	the events of the day	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus event=Experiencer
3	instruct		the Sultan		nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That they be recorded by his private historian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 recorded	nsubj:pass
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 recorded	nsubj:pass
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 recorded	aux:pass
4	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 historian	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 historian	nmod:poss
7	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 historian	amod
8	historian	historian	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recorded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	record	infinitive · passive	his private historian	That					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2

That they be kept by the royal scribe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 kept	nsubj:pass
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj:pass
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	aux:pass
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 scribe	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 scribe	det
7	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 scribe	amod
8	scribe	scribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	infinitive · passive	the royal scribe	That					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3

To be written down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 written	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 written	aux:pass
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 written	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write down	to-infinitive · passive							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»

Option 4

That they be sealed by the chief vizir

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 sealed	nsubj:pass
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sealed	nsubj:pass
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sealed	aux:pass
4	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 vizir	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vizir	det
7	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 vizir	amod
8	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sealed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seal	infinitive · passive	the chief vizir	That					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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