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title: State the official who first attributed the disappearance of the pal… — Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonder… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the official who first attributed the disappearance of the palace to enchantment. Exam question 2 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 depende
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# Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 19: t…

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State the official who first attributed the disappearance of the palace to enchantment.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, official, palace · **What happens:** state, attribute, disappear · **To what, where:** official, disappearance

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:e2:1
# text = State the official who first attributed the disappearance of the palace to enchantment.
1	State	state	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	official	official	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
6	attributed	attribute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the official |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent official=Topic |
| 2 | **attribute** | past | the official | the disappearance of the palace |  |  |  | to enchantment; first *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **disappear** |  | the palace |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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jeweler

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:e2:o1:1
# text = jeweler
1	jeweler	jeweler	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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the Sultan's head magician

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:e2:o2:1
# text = the Sultan's head magician
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Vizier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:e2:o3:1
# text = Vizier
1	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	NNP	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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guard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:e2:o4:1
# text = guard
1	guard	guard	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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