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title: What did the enchantress pronounce over the cup of water in order to… — Arabian Nights, The Young King of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the enchantress pronounce over the cup of water in order to make it boil? Exam question 2 of lesson 169 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enchantress slain, the porter invited in» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enc…

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What did the enchantress pronounce over the cup of water in order to make it boil?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** enchantress · **What happens:** do, pronounce, make, boil · **To what, where:** cup, enchantress

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 169 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enchantress slain, the porter invited in» 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/169-pg128-part9/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:169-pg128-part9:e2:1
# text = What did the enchantress pronounce over the cup of water in order to make it boil?
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	4	det	_	_
4	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  | the cup of water |  | in order | tree rules |
| 2 | **pronounce** | present | the enchantress |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | enchantress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **boil** | infinitive | enchantress *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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Magic chants and rhymes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:169-pg128-part9:e2:o1:1
# text = Magic chants and rhymes
1	Magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	chants	chant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Certain words of enchantment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:169-pg128-part9:e2:o2:1
# text = Certain words of enchantment
1	Certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The name of the prince written three times upon the cup's rim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:169-pg128-part9:e2:o3:1
# text = The name of the prince written three times upon the cup's rim
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	rim	rim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | participle · passive |  | the name of the prince |  |  | time | upon the cup's rim | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **name** |  |  | the prince |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A long prayer read slowly from a golden book of the old kings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:169-pg128-part9:e2:o4:1
# text = A long prayer read slowly from a golden book of the old kings
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | past | a long prayer |  |  | a golden book of the old kings |  | slowly *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from book=Source |

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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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