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title: What is the principal reason the sultan requires the monkey's heart? — Indian Fairy Tales, The Heart of a Mon… · tree and pragmatics
description: What is the principal reason the sultan requires the monkey's heart? Exam question 2 of lesson 1283 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Heart of a Monkey, part 1: a clever monkey tricks a shark into carrying him back to his tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Exam question 2 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Heart of a Monkey, part 1: a cleve…

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What is the principal reason the sultan requires the monkey's heart?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sultan · **What happens:** be, require · **To what, where:** principal reason, heart

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1283 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Heart of a Monkey, part 1: a clever monkey tricks a shark into carrying him back to his tree» 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/1283-pg3454-part8/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1283-pg3454-part8:e2:1
# text = What is the principal reason the sultan requires the monkey's heart?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	requires	require	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the principal reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **require** | present | the sultan | the monkey's heart |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Precondition |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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To cure his illness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1283-pg3454-part8:e2:o1:1
# text = To cure his illness
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	cure	cure	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cure** | to-infinitive |  | his illness |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer illness=Source |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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To make him feel young

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1283-pg3454-part8:e2:o2:1
# text = To make him feel young
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | infinitive | him *= he* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | young *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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For his wedding day feast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1283-pg3454-part8:e2:o3:1
# text = For his wedding day feast
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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For a feast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1283-pg3454-part8:e2:o4:1
# text = For a feast
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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