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title: Identify the official responsible for supplying the sultan with a ne… — Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the official responsible for supplying the sultan with a new bride each evening. Exam question 2 of lesson 161 «Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl offers herself to the sultan» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Exam question 2 · Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl off…

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Identify the official responsible for supplying the sultan with a new bride each evening.

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

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 161 «Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl offers herself to the sultan» 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/161-pg128-part1/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:e2:1
# text = Identify the official responsible for supplying the sultan with a new bride each evening.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	supplying	supply	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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* |  |  |  |  |  | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **supply** | gerund | you *not said here* | the sultan |  |  | evening | with a new bride | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient with bride=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The grand-vizir, whose duty it was to provide them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:e2:o1:1
# text = The grand-vizir, whose duty it was to provide them
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **duty** |  | vizir |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the grand vizir |  |  |  |  | provide *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A palace official

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:e2:o2:1
# text = A palace official
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	official	official	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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The chief minister, who had to find them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:e2:o3:1
# text = The chief minister, who had to find them
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the chief minister |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | the chief minister *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The grand-vizir, whose job was to find girls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:e2:o4:1
# text = The grand-vizir, whose job was to find girls
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the grand vizir and the grand vizir and the grand vizir's job's job |  |  |  |  | find *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **job** |  | the grand vizir and the grand vizir and job's job |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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