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title: Wait, who told the Sultan the palace was magic? — Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonder… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, who told the Sultan the palace was magic? Test 3 · ★ 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 question and o
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# Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 19: t…

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Wait, who told the Sultan the palace was magic?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, palace · **What happens:** wait, tell, be · **To what, where:** Sultan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:t3:1
# text = Wait, who told the Sultan the palace was magic?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the Sultan |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the palace |  |  |  |  | magic *property* | tree rules |

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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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the Vizier, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:t3:o1:1
# text = the Vizier, fr
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the jeweler, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:t3:o2:1
# text = the jeweler, fr
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jeweler	jeweler	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 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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the Princess, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:t3:o3:1
# text = the Princess, fr
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	princess	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 slave, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:t3:o4:1
# text = a slave, fr
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	slave	slave	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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