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title: Hold up, where did Aladdin's palace land? — Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonder… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hold up, where did Aladdin's palace land? Test 14 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Test 14 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 20: t…

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Hold up, where did Aladdin's palace land?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hold up, do · **To what, where:** palace land

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This is test 14 · ★ 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. 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/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1433-pg503-part20:t14:1
# text = Hold up, where did Aladdin's palace land?
1	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | Aladdin's palace land |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Eventuality |

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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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near Cairo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1433-pg503-part20:t14:o1:1
# text = near Cairo
1	near	near	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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back in the capital city of China

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1433-pg503-part20:t14:o2:1
# text = back in the capital city of China
1	back	back	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	capital	capital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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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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by the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1433-pg503-part20:t14:o3:1
# text = by the sea
1	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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back in China

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1433-pg503-part20:t14:o4:1
# text = back in China
1	back	back	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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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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