Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 1: the blind man's curse…

What did the Caliph require of Sidi-Nouman before hearing his account?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nouman · What happens: do, hear, account · To what, where: Caliph require, account

This is exam question 3 of lesson 216 «Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 1: the blind man's curse ends, and the Caliph questions the cruel young man» 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	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 require	det
4	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 require	compound
5	require	require	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Sidi	case
7	Sidi	Sidi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 require	nmod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Nouman	punct
9	Nouman	Nouman	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Sidi	conj
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 hearing	mark
11	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 did	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 account	nmod:poss
13	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hearing	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the Caliph require of Sidi and Nouman	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent require=Eventuality
2	hear	gerund		Nouman's account	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer account=Stimulus
3	account		Nouman		nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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

a plain and honest answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 answer	det
2	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 honest	cc
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 plain	conj
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a complete and candid statement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 statement	det
2	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 statement	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 candid	cc
4	candid	candid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 complete	conj
5	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a complete and candid statement of every single thing he had done that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 statement	det
2	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 statement	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 candid	cc
4	candid	candid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 complete	conj
5	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 thing	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 thing	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 statement	nmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 done	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 thing	acl:relcl
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 done	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	he	every single thing not said here			day		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	state			every single thing					nom statement «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

a full written report with witnesses and all the details of his life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 report	det
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 report	amod
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 report	amod
4	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 witnesses	case
6	witnesses	witness	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 report	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 details	cc
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 details	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 details	det
10	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 report	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 life	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 life	nmod:poss
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 details	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	detail			his life					nom detail «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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