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title: how did the king die, fr? — Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: how did the king die, fr? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 167 «Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the Greek king dies of poisoned pages, then the magic fish burn in the kitchen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
how did the king die, fr?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** king die · **What happens:** be

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 167 «Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the Greek king dies of poisoned pages, then the magic fish burn in the kitchen» 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/167-pg128-part7/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:167-pg128-part7:t7:1
# text = how did the king die, fr?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	die	die	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the king die and fr |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
poison on the pages

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:167-pg128-part7:t7:o1:1
# text = poison on the pages
1	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
poison smeared on the book's pages

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:167-pg128-part7:t7:o2:1
# text = poison smeared on the book's pages
1	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	smeared	smear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smear** | participle |  | poison *not said here* |  | the book's pages |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on page=Destination |
| 2 | **page** |  | the book |  |  |  |  |  | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
poison on the pages of his golden book

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:167-pg128-part7:t7:o3:1
# text = poison on the pages of his golden book
1	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **page** |  |  | his golden book |  |  |  |  | nom page «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
by the wicked book

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:167-pg128-part7:t7:o4:1
# text = by the wicked book
1	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	book	book	NOUN	NN	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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