--- title: Indicate the reason the magician gave for the lamp exchange when he… — Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonder… · tree and pragmatics description: Indicate the reason the magician gave for the lamp exchange when he cried in the street. Exam question 4 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 depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1432-pg503-part19/e4/) [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, Aladdin and the Wonder…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1432-pg503-part19/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 19: t… Indicate the reason the magician gave for the lamp exchange when he cried in the street. **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, magician · **What happens:** indicate, give, cry · **To what, where:** reason, street This is exam question 4 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/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:e4:1 # text = Indicate the reason the magician gave for the lamp exchange when he cried in the street. 1 Indicate indicate VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 lamp lamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 exchange exchange NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **indicate** | imperative | you *not said here* | the reason | | | | | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot reason=Topic | | 2 | **give** | past | the magician | the reason *not said here* | | | | for the lamp exchange | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent reason=Theme for exchange=Asset | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | magician | | | the street | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location | 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 {#o1} gold for old lamps ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:e4:o1:1 # text = gold for old lamps 1 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 lamps lamp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} new lamps for old ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:e4:o2:1 # text = new lamps for old 1 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 lamps lamp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} new gold for old ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:e4:o3:1 # text = new gold for old 1 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} old lamps ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:e4:o4:1 # text = old lamps 1 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 lamps lamp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 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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