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# Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

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Which item did the Fairy Paribanou first present to Prince Ahmed at the outset of his errand?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** item · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Paribanou first present, outset

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1499 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 86: Ahmed fetches the lions' water, then meets Schaibar, the Fairy's giant brother» 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/1499-pg503-part86/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1499-pg503-part86:e1:1
# text = Which item did the Fairy Paribanou first present to Prince Ahmed at the outset of his errand?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	item	item	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Paribanou	Paribanou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	outset	outset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	errand	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which item | the Paribanou first present |  | the outset of item's errand |  | to Prince Ahmed | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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a bottle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1499-pg503-part86:e1:o1:1
# text = a bottle
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	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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a sword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1499-pg503-part86:e1:o2:1
# text = a sword
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sword	sword	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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a golden ring for luck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1499-pg503-part86:e1:o3:1
# text = a golden ring for luck
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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a clew of thread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1499-pg503-part86:e1:o4:1
# text = a clew of thread
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clew	clew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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