---
title: What object was employed by the suitors to announce their arrival at… — Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What object was employed by the suitors to announce their arrival at the royal court? Exam question 2 of lesson 1201 «Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz, part 2: Tahmasp rides to the riddle city and loses his head, and his brother follows him» of the books course of Mova's pr
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1201-pg3282-part2/e2/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1201-pg3282-part2/) / e2

# Exam question 2 · Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What object was employed by the suitors to announce their arrival at the royal court?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** suitors · **What happens:** employ, announce, arrive · **To what, where:** arrival, royal court

<!-- .vabout -->
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1201 «Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz, part 2: Tahmasp rides to the riddle city and loses his head, and his brother follows him» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1201-pg3282-part2/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1201-pg3282-part2:e2:1
# text = What object was employed by the suitors to announce their arrival at the royal court?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	suitors	suitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	announce	announce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | past · passive | the suitors |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the suitors *not said here* | suitors's arrival |  | the royal court |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrival=Theme |
| 3 | **arrive** |  | suitors *= suitor* |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Two golden trumpets with silver mouths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1201-pg3282-part2:e2:o1:1
# text = Two golden trumpets with silver mouths
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A brass gong with a silver stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1201-pg3282-part2:e2:o2:1
# text = A brass gong with a silver stick
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	gong	gong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Two jewelled drums with jewelled sticks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1201-pg3282-part2:e2:o3:1
# text = Two jewelled drums with jewelled sticks
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	jewelled	jewell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	jewelled	jewell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jewell** | past | Two | drums |  |  |  | with jewelled sticks | tree rules |
| 2 | **jewell** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A silver horn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1201-pg3282-part2:e2:o4:1
# text = A silver horn
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the…, exam 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1201-pg3282-part2/e1/)
- next →: [Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the…, exam 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1201-pg3282-part2/e3/)
- ↑ back to [Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz, part 2: Tahmasp rides to the riddle city and loses his head, and his brother follows him](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1201-pg3282-part2/)