--- title: Which purse did the head first require the old woman to retrieve fro… — Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, pa… · tree and pragmatics description: Which purse did the head first require the old woman to retrieve from the trunk? Exam question 1 of lesson 1235 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head makes the sultan's hill into a garden» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1235-pg3282-part36/e1/) [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 Enchanted Head, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1235-pg3282-part36/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head make… Which purse did the head first require the old woman to retrieve from the trunk? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** purse · **What happens:** do, require, retrieve · **To what, where:** head, old woman, trunk This is exam question 1 of lesson 1235 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head makes the sultan's hill into a garden» 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/1235-pg3282-part36/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:e1:1 # text = Which purse did the head first require the old woman to retrieve from the trunk? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 advmod _ _ 7 require require VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 retrieve retrieve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | which purse | the head | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality | | 2 | **require** | present | which purse *not said here* | the old woman | | | | first *property* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme woman=Precondition | | 3 | **retrieve** | to-infinitive | which purse *not said here* | the old woman *not said here* | | the trunk | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from trunk=Source | 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} the blue purse ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:e1:o1:1 # text = the blue purse 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a purse ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:e1:o2:1 # text = a purse 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} the green purse ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:e1:o3:1 # text = the green purse 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the red purse ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:e1:o4:1 # text = the red purse 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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