---
title: Which substance was the king's body anointed with prior to immolation? — Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypre… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which substance was the king's body anointed with prior to immolation? Exam question 1 of lesson 1207 «Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prince wins a wish and the king starts his tale» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1207-pg3282-part8/e1/)

<!-- 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/) / [Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypre…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1207-pg3282-part8/) / e1

# Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prin…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Which substance was the king's body anointed with prior to immolation?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** substance · **What happens:** be, anoint · **To what, where:** body

<!-- .vabout -->
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1207 «Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prince wins a wish and the king starts his tale» 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/1207-pg3282-part8/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1207-pg3282-part8:e1:1
# text = Which substance was the king's body anointed with prior to immolation?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl	_	_
8	anointed	anoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	immolation	immolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | which substance *not said here* | the king's body |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **anoint** | past | which substance |  |  |  |  | with immolation | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with immolation=Theme |

<!-- .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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1207-pg3282-part8:e1:o1:1
# text = Fat
1	Fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1207-pg3282-part8:e1:o2:1
# text = Ash
1	Ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Oil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1207-pg3282-part8:e1:o3:1
# text = Oil
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Balm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1207-pg3282-part8:e1:o4:1
# text = Balm
1	Balm	balm	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: [Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypre…, test 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1207-pg3282-part8/t13/)
- next →: [Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypre…, exam 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1207-pg3282-part8/e2/)
- ↑ back to [Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prince wins a wish and the king starts his tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1207-pg3282-part8/)