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title: What advice did the tailor offer the prince regarding his means of s… — Arabian Nights, The Young King of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What advice did the tailor offer the prince regarding his means of subsistence? Exam question 3 of lesson 173 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13: robbed, a poor wood-cutter, finds a princess underground» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree 
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# Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13…

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What advice did the tailor offer the prince regarding his means of subsistence?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** tailor · **What happens:** offer, regard, mean · **To what, where:** prince

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 173 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13: robbed, a poor wood-cutter, finds a princess underground» 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/173-pg128-part13/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:173-pg128-part13:e3:1
# text = What advice did the tailor offer the prince regarding his means of subsistence?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	nsubj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	subsistence	subsistence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | past · do-support | the tailor | the prince |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prince=Theme |
| 2 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of subsistence | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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to cut firewood for sale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:173-pg128-part13:e3:o1:1
# text = to cut firewood for sale
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	firewood	firewood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | to-infinitive |  | firewood |  |  |  | for sale | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent firewood=Product for sale=Asset |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to beg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:173-pg128-part13:e3:o2:1
# text = to beg
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	beg	beg	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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to steal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:173-pg128-part13:e3:o3:1
# text = to steal
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	steal	steal	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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to trade horses for gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:173-pg128-part13:e3:o4:1
# text = to trade horses for gold
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	trade	trade	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trade** | to-infinitive |  | horses |  |  |  | for gold | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent horse=Theme for gold=Co-Theme |

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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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