Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, The Tale of Prince Camaralzaman, part 39:…

State the punishment inflicted upon the slave when he persisted in denying knowledge of the lady.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: inflict, persist, deny · To what, where: State punishment, knowledge

This is exam question 3 of lesson 199 «Arabian Nights, The Tale of Prince Camaralzaman, part 39: the prince wakes beside the sleeping princess, and the king learns of the mystery» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 punishment	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 punishment	det
3	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	inflicted	inflict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 punishment	acl
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 slave	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 slave	det
7	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 inflicted	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 persisted	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 persisted	nsubj
10	persisted	persist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 inflicted	advcl
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 denying	mark
12	denying	deny	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 persisted	advcl
13	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 denying	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 lady	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lady	det
16	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knowledge	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 punishment	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	inflict	participle		the State punishment not said here	upon the slave	tree rules
2	persist	past	he			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	deny	gerund	he not said here	knowledge of the lady		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Eventuality

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

a severe beating and months locked in the dungeon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 beating	det
2	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beating	amod
3	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 months	cc
5	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 beating	conj
6	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 beating	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 dungeon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dungeon	det
9	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	participle		a severe beating and months not said here		the dungeon			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

a beating, a ducking in the well, and exile from court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 beating	det
2	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ducking	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ducking	det
5	ducking	ducking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beating	appos
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 well	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 well	det
8	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ducking	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 exile	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 exile	cc
11	exile	exile	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beating	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 court	case
13	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 exile	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a beating and a ducking in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 beating	det
2	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ducking	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ducking	det
5	ducking	ducking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beating	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beating	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a beating and a ducking in the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 beating	det
2	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ducking	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ducking	det
5	ducking	ducking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beating	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 well	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 well	det
8	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beating	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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