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title: Ngl, what did the Sultan think Aladdin's window was, like? — Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonder… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what did the Sultan think Aladdin's window was, like? Test 12 · ★ 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 tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 19: t…

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Ngl, what did the Sultan think Aladdin's window was, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sultan · **What happens:** think · **To what, where:** window

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This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:t12:1
# text = Ngl, what did the Sultan think Aladdin's window was, like?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | the Sultan | Aladdin's window |  |  |  | Ngl *vocative* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme window=Attribute |

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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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pure gold, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:t12:o1:1
# text = pure gold, fr
1	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
pure magic, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:t12:o2:1
# text = pure magic, fr
1	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a fake, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:t12:o3:1
# text = a fake, fr
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fake	fake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a trick, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:t12:o4:1
# text = a trick, fr
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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