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title: What did the Sultan resolve to do upon learning the young king's his… — Arabian Nights, The Young King of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the Sultan resolve to do upon learning the young king's history? Exam question 4 of lesson 168 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8: the talking fish and the Sultan's night journey» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8:…

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What did the Sultan resolve to do upon learning the young king's history?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sultan · **What happens:** resolve, do, learn · **To what, where:** history

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 168 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8: the talking fish and the Sultan's night journey» 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/168-pg128-part8/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:168-pg128-part8:e4:1
# text = What did the Sultan resolve to do upon learning the young king's history?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	resolve	resolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past · do-support | the Sultan |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | the Sultan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **learn** | gerund | the Sultan *not said here* | the young king's history |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Topic |

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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 {#o1}

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To avenge the young king on the enchantress and free him from marble

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:168-pg128-part8:e4:o1:1
# text = To avenge the young king on the enchantress and free him from marble
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avenge** | to-infinitive |  | the young king |  | the enchantress |  | from marble | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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To marry the young king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:168-pg128-part8:e4:o2:1
# text = To marry the young king
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	marry	marry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	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 | **marry** | to-infinitive |  | the young king |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To punish the grand-vizir

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:168-pg128-part8:e4:o3:1
# text = To punish the grand-vizir
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	punish	punish	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **punish** | to-infinitive |  | the grand vizir |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizir=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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To avenge the young king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:168-pg128-part8:e4:o4:1
# text = To avenge the young king
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	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 | **avenge** | to-infinitive |  | the young king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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