Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a s…
In what manner did the vizir's wife propose to recover the lost honour of the household?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, propose, recover, lose, honour · To what, where: wife, manner, lost honour, household
This is exam question 3 of lesson 206 «Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a slave for the king, and his son falls for her» 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 manner | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 manner | det |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vizir | det |
| 6 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 vizir | case |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 9 | propose | propose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 recover | mark |
| 11 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 propose | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 honour | det |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 honour | amod |
| 14 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 recover | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 household | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 household | det |
| 17 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 honour | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the vizir's wife | what manner | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | propose | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | recover | to-infinitive | the lost honour of the household | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | honour | the household | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
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
By buying another slave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 buying | mark |
| 2 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 slave | det |
| 4 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 buying | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | gerund | another slave | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme |
Option 2
By asking the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 asking | mark |
| 2 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asking | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
Option 3
By sending her away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 sending | mark |
| 2 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sending | obj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 sending | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send away | gerund | her = she | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 4
By selling jewels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 selling | mark |
| 2 | selling | sell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 selling | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | gerund | jewels | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme |
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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