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title: Identify the item which the apothecary was asked to supply to Morgia… — Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the item which the apothecary was asked to supply to Morgiana for her master. Exam question 2 of lesson 1470 «Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 57: Cassim is killed and the thieves send a spy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 57: C…

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Identify the item which the apothecary was asked to supply to Morgiana for her master.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, apothecary · **What happens:** identify, ask, supply · **To what, where:** item, apothecary, Morgiana

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1470 «Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 57: Cassim is killed and the thieves send a spy» 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/1470-pg503-part57/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1470-pg503-part57:e2:1
# text = Identify the item which the apothecary was asked to supply to Morgiana for her master.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	item	item	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	apothecary	apothecary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	supply	supply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the item |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent item=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · passive |  | the apothecary |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **supply** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the apothecary *not said here* |  | Morgiana |  |  | for apothecary's master | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to morgiana=Recipient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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some lozenges

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1470-pg503-part57:e2:o1:1
# text = some lozenges
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	lozenges	lozenge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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some medicine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1470-pg503-part57:e2:o2:1
# text = some medicine
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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salve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1470-pg503-part57:e2:o3:1
# text = salve
1	salve	salve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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tea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1470-pg503-part57:e2:o4:1
# text = tea
1	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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