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title: fr what does the merchant promise the genie? — Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the G… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr what does the merchant promise the genie? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 162 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheherazade wins more days by telling a tale of a merchant facing a fierce genie» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheh…

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fr what does the merchant promise the genie?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** merchant · **What happens:** promise · **To what, where:** fr

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 162 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheherazade wins more days by telling a tale of a merchant facing a fierce genie» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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/162-pg128-part2/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:162-pg128-part2:t10:1
# text = fr what does the merchant promise the genie?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	genie	genie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present · do-support | the merchant | fr |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal genie=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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to come back to the garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:162-pg128-part2:t10:o1:1
# text = to come back to the garden
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the garden |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to garden=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to return to the same trees with his family and friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:162-pg128-part2:t10:o2:1
# text = to return to the same trees with his family and friends
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	with	with	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	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the same trees *result*; with his family and friends | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to tree=Result |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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to come back under the trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:162-pg128-part2:t10:o3:1
# text = to come back under the trees
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the trees |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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to return to the place

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:162-pg128-part2:t10:o4:1
# text = to return to the place
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the place *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result |

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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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