Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, Prince Firouz Schah: the prince wins back…

What declaration did the prince make to the Sultan upon his departure?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: declaration, prince · What happens: make, depart

This is exam question 4 of lesson 226 «Arabian Nights, Prince Firouz Schah: the prince wins back the princess and tricks the Sultan» 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 declaration	det
2	declaration	declaration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Sultan	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sultan	det
9	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 make	obl
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 departure	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 departure	nmod:poss
12	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · do-support	what declaration					to the Sultan; upon prince's departure	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	depart		prince						nom departure «act intransitive»: 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

Learn first to gain consent or do not take what is not yours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Learn	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 gain	mark
4	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Learn	xcomp
5	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gain	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 take	cc
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 take	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 take	advmod
9	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Learn	conj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 yours	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 yours	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 yours	advmod
13	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 take	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	learn	imperative	you not said here		first property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	gain	to-infinitive	you not said here	consent		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme
3	not take	infinitive · do-support	you not said here			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not is a	present		yours		tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Learn first to gain consent from every king before taking their horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Learn	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 gain	mark
4	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Learn	xcomp
5	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gain	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 king	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gain	obl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 taking	mark
10	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gain	advcl
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 horse	nmod:poss
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	learn	imperative	you not said here			first property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	gain	to-infinitive	you not said here	consent		from every king	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent consent=Theme from king=Source
3	take	gerund	you not said here		their horse		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination

Option 3

Seek consent before acting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seek	obj
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 acting	mark
4	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Seek	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	imperative	you not said here	consent					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme
2	act	gerund	you not said here						vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Learn first to gain consent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Learn	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 gain	mark
4	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Learn	xcomp
5	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	imperative	you not said here					first property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	gain	to-infinitive	you not said here	consent					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme

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