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title: What did the genie vow to do during the third century of his captivi… — Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the genie vow to do during the third century of his captivity? Exam question 2 of lesson 165 «Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genie, part 5: the jar is opened and a furious genie appears» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genie, part 5: the j…

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What did the genie vow to do during the third century of his captivity?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** genie vow

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 165 «Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genie, part 5: the jar is opened and a furious genie appears» 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/165-pg128-part5/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:165-pg128-part5:e2:1
# text = What did the genie vow to do during the third century of his captivity?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	genie	genie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	during	during	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	captivity	captivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the genie vow |  |  | century |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | the genie vow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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to make his deliverer a king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:165-pg128-part5:e2:o1:1
# text = to make his deliverer a king
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	deliverer	deliverer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | his deliverer |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset deliverer=Beneficiary king=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to crown him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:165-pg128-part5:e2:o2:1
# text = to crown him
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	crown	crown	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crown** | to-infinitive |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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to make a king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:165-pg128-part5:e2:o3:1
# text = to make a king
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a king |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset king=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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to make his rescuer a lord

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:165-pg128-part5:e2:o4:1
# text = to make his rescuer a lord
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	rescuer	rescuer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | his rescuer |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset rescuer=Beneficiary lord=Product |

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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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