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title: What did the Sultan require of Aladdin in order to avoid execution? — Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonder… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the Sultan require of Aladdin in order to avoid execution? Exam question 1 of lesson 1433 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 20: the palace flies home, and the magician's brother, disguised as Fatima, asks for a roc's egg» of the books course of Mova's primary school, wit
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# Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 20: t…

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What did the Sultan require of Aladdin in order to avoid execution?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, avoid · **To what, where:** Sultan require, order, execution

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1433 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 20: the palace flies home, and the magician's brother, disguised as Fatima, asks for a roc's egg» 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/1433-pg503-part20/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1433-pg503-part20:e1:1
# text = What did the Sultan require of Aladdin in order to avoid execution?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	require	require	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
12	execution	execution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the Sultan require of Aladdin |  | order |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent require=Eventuality |
| 2 | **avoid** | to-infinitive |  | execution |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent execution=Location |

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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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that he bring back the Princess and the palace within forty days under pain of death

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1433-pg503-part20:e1:o1:1
# text = that he bring back the Princess and the palace within forty days under pain of death
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	within	within	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring back** | infinitive | he |  | the Princess and the palace | pain of death | day |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination |
| 2 | **pain** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
that he restore the Princess within forty days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1433-pg503-part20:e1:o2:1
# text = that he restore the Princess within forty days
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	within	within	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **restore** | infinitive | he | the Princess |  |  | day |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent princess=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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that he restore the Princess to the palace within forty days or die

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1433-pg503-part20:e1:o3:1
# text = that he restore the Princess to the palace within forty days or die
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	within	within	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **restore** | infinitive | he | the Princess | the palace |  | day |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Theme to palace=Recipient |
| 2 | **die** | infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
that he marry the Princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1433-pg503-part20:e1:o4:1
# text = that he marry the Princess
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | infinitive | he | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |

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