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title: Which city did Prince Ali enter upon his arrival in Persia? — Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which city did Prince Ali enter upon his arrival in Persia? Exam question 1 of lesson 1494 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 81: the brothers' gifts save the Princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…

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Which city did Prince Ali enter upon his arrival in Persia?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** city · **What happens:** do, arrive · **To what, where:** Ali, Persia

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1494 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 81: the brothers' gifts save the Princess» 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/1494-pg503-part81/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:e1:1
# text = Which city did Prince Ali enter upon his arrival in Persia?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	enter	ent	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which city | Ali  Prince |  |  |  | upon city's arrival in Persia; ent *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ali=Eventuality |
| 2 | **arrive** |  | city |  |  | Persia |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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The walled city of Bagdad on the river Tigris

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:e1:o1:1
# text = The walled city of Bagdad on the river Tigris
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	walled	wall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Tigris	Tigris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Schiraz

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:e1:o2:1
# text = Schiraz
1	Schiraz	Schiraz	PROPN	NNP	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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Bisnagar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:e1:o3:1
# text = Bisnagar
1	Bisnagar	Bisnagar	PROPN	NNP	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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Samarcand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:e1:o4:1
# text = Samarcand
1	Samarcand	Samarcand	PROPN	NNP	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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