Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part…

Upon what condition did Khacan consent to pardon his son Noureddin?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: condition · What happens: do, pardon · To what, where: Khacan consent, son

This is exam question 1 of lesson 207 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part 47: Noureddin's friends desert him and the Persian is put up for sale» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	Khacan	khacan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 consent	amod
6	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pardon	mark
8	pardon	pardon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pardon	obj
11	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 son	appos
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	condition	Khacan consent					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Eventuality
2	pardon	to-infinitive	condition not said here	condition's son					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme

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

Provided he sends the Persian to the market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sends	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sends	nsubj
3	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Persian	det
5	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sends	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 market	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 market	det
8	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	he	the Persian		the market			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent persian=Theme to market=Destination

Option 2

On one condition

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 condition	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 condition	nummod
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

On condition that he take the Persian as his wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	2 condition	case
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 take	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	nsubj
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 condition	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Persian	det
7	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	infinitive	he	the Persian				as his wife	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent persian=Theme as wife=Attribute

Option 4

On condition that he divorce the Persian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	2 condition	case
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 divorce	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 divorce	nsubj
5	divorce	divorce	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 condition	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Persian	det
7	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 divorce	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	divorce	present	he	the Persian					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent persian=Co-Agent

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