Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part…

What condition did the blind man attach to accepting alms?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: attach, accept · To what, where: alms

This is exam question 3 of lesson 214 «Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part 1: the Caliph is stopped by a blind beggar who begs to be struck» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attach	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 attach	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attach	nsubj
7	attach	attach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	SCONJ	_	9 accepting	mark
9	accepting	accept	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 attach	advcl
10	alms	alm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 accepting	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 attach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attach	past · do-support	what condition						vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	accept	gerund	what condition not said here	alms					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alm=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 · ← Mova's choice

a coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 coin	det
2	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

that he get a meal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 get	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 meal	det
5	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	infinitive	he	a meal					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

that he receive chastisement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 receive	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 receive	nsubj
3	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	chastisement	chastisement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 receive	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	infinitive	he	chastisement					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chastisement=Theme

Option 4

that he be paid in gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 paid	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj:pass
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 paid	aux:pass
4	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 gold	case
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	infinitive · passive		he		gold			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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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