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title: To whom did the Fairy Paribanou address her admonition concerning th… — Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the F… · tree and pragmatics
description: To whom did the Fairy Paribanou address her admonition concerning the sorceress? Exam question 3 of lesson 1497 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 84: the magician fakes a fever and gets in» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

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To whom did the Fairy Paribanou address her admonition concerning the sorceress?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** her · **What happens:** do, concern, admonish · **To what, where:** Paribanou address, sorceress

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1497 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 84: the magician fakes a fever and gets in» 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/1497-pg503-part84/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1497-pg503-part84:e3:1
# text = To whom did the Fairy Paribanou address her admonition concerning the sorceress?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Paribanou	Paribanou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	admonition	admonition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	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 Paribanou address |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **concern** | gerund |  | the sorceress |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sorceress=Experiencer |
| 3 | **admonish** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom admonition «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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To the Sultan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1497-pg503-part84:e3:o1:1
# text = To the Sultan
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Sultan	Sultan	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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To Ahmed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1497-pg503-part84:e3:o2:1
# text = To Ahmed
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Ahmed	Ahmed	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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To her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1497-pg503-part84:e3:o3:1
# text = To her
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	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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To Prince Ahmed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1497-pg503-part84:e3:o4:1
# text = To Prince Ahmed
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Ahmed	Ahmed	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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