Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 43: a king…

Which conduct does the gardener exhibit upon learning of the treasure, according to the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: conduct · What happens: do, accord · To what, where: gardener exhibit

This is exam question 3 of lesson 203 «Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 43: a king makes a stranger his heir, and a gardener's treasure is found» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 conduct	det
2	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 exhibit	det
5	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exhibit	compound
6	exhibit	exhibit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 learning	case
8	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exhibit	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 treasure	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 treasure	det
11	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 learning	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 narrative	punct
13	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 narrative	case
14	to	to	ADP	_	13 according	fixed
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 narrative	det
16	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 learning	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	which conduct	the gardener exhibit				upon learning of the treasure and the narrative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exhibit=Eventuality
2	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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

He hides the jars and refuses to tell the king about the cave and its gold

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hides	nsubj
2	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jars	det
4	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hides	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 refuses	cc
6	refuses	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hides	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 tell	mark
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 refuses	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 cave	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cave	det
13	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gold	cc
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 gold	nmod:poss
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cave	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hide	present	He	the jars			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Patient
2	refuse	present	He not said here				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	He not said here		the king	about the cave and its gold	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent king=Recipient about cave=Topic

Option 2

He keeps the gold secretly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
5	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	2 keeps	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	He	the gold				secretly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He declines to appropriate the treasure and insists that it belongs to the prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 declines	nsubj
2	declines	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 appropriate	mark
4	appropriate	appropriate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 declines	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 treasure	det
6	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appropriate	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 insists	cc
8	insists	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 declines	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 belongs	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 belongs	nsubj
11	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 insists	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 prince	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prince	det
14	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 belongs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	decline	present	He			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not appropriate	to-infinitive	He not said here	the treasure		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme
3	insist speech: other	present	He not said here			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	belong	present	treasure		to the prince	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He sells it at market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sells	nsubj
2	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sells	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 market	case
5	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sells	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present	He	it		market			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at market=Asset

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