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title: Identify the weapon with which the executioner was about to sever Al… — Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonder… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the weapon with which the executioner was about to sever Aladdin's head. Exam question 1 of lesson 1432 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 19: the magician steals the lamp and Aladdin is nearly beheaded» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tr
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# Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 19: t…

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Identify the weapon with which the executioner was about to sever Aladdin's head.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, executioner · **What happens:** identify, be, sever · **To what, where:** weapon, head

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1432 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 19: the magician steals the lamp and Aladdin is nearly beheaded» 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/1432-pg503-part19/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:e1:1
# text = Identify the weapon with which the executioner was about to sever Aladdin's head.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	executioner	executioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	sever	sever	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the weapon |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the executioner |  |  |  |  | with the weapon; about *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sever** | to-infinitive | the executioner *not said here* | Aladdin's head |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |

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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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cutlass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:e1:o1:1
# text = cutlass
1	cutlass	cutlass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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scimitar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:e1:o2:1
# text = scimitar
1	scimitar	scimitar	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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curved scimitar of steel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:e1:o3:1
# text = curved scimitar of steel
1	curved	curved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	scimitar	scimitar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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dagger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:e1:o4:1
# text = dagger
1	dagger	dagger	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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