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title: In what manner did the Princess Nouronnihar regain consciousness? — Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the F… · tree and pragmatics
description: In what manner did the Princess Nouronnihar regain consciousness? Exam question 4 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 questi
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# Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…

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In what manner did the Princess Nouronnihar regain consciousness?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Princess Nouronnihar · **What happens:** regain · **To what, where:** consciousness, manner

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:e4:1
# text = In what manner did the Princess Nouronnihar regain consciousness?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Nouronnihar	Nouronnihar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	regain	regain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	consciousness	consciousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regain** | past · do-support | the Princess Nouronnihar | consciousness |  | what manner |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consciousness=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Like a person waking from a cold bath in winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:e4:o1:1
# text = Like a person waking from a cold bath in winter
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	waking	wake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** | gerund | a person *not said here* |  |  | a cold bath | winter |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Like a child at dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:e4:o2:1
# text = Like a child at dawn
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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In a fright, calling for her father the Sultan in tears at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:e4:o3:1
# text = In a fright, calling for her father the Sultan in tears at once
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | gerund | a fright *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for her father in tears | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at once=Stimulus |

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

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As from a sound sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:e4:o4:1
# text = As from a sound sleep
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	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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