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title: What did the prince agree to upon hearing the terms? — Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypre… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the prince agree to upon hearing the terms? Exam question 4 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 question and of eac
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# Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prin…

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What did the prince agree to upon hearing the terms?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** agree, hear · **To what, where:** terms

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1207-pg3282-part8:e4:1
# text = What did the prince agree to upon hearing the terms?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past · do-support | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 2 | **hear** | gerund | the prince *not said here* | the terms |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer term=Stimulus |

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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}

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Death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1207-pg3282-part8:e4:o1:1
# text = Death
1	Death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yield

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1207-pg3282-part8:e4:o2:1
# text = Yield
1	Yield	yield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Surrender to the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1207-pg3282-part8:e4:o3:1
# text = Surrender to the king
1	Surrender	surrender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Submission to death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1207-pg3282-part8:e4:o4:1
# text = Submission to death
1	Submission	submission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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**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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