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title: Be real, where did the magician drag the palace off to? — Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonder… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be real, where did the magician drag the palace off to? Test 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 dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 19: t…

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Be real, where did the magician drag the palace off to?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, magician · **What happens:** be, drag off · **To what, where:** palace

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This is test 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. 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:t4:1
# text = Be real, where did the magician drag the palace off to?
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	drag	drag	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drag off** | past · do-support | the magician | the palace |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=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 {#o1}

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a desert in Asia, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:t4:o1:1
# text = a desert in Asia, fr
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a lonely place in Africa, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:t4:o2:1
# text = a lonely place in Africa, fr
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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an island far off, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:t4:o3:1
# text = an island far off, fr
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	off	off	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a lonely place in Africa far away, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1432-pg503-part19:t4:o4:1
# text = a lonely place in Africa far away, fr
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	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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