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title: To whom did the genius, disguised as an old man, return the narrator… — Arabian Nights, The Third Calender, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: To whom did the genius, disguised as an old man, return the narrator's personal possessions? Exam question 2 of lesson 174 «Arabian Nights, The Third Calender, part 14: the narrator smashes the talisman, and the genius catches him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tr
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# Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Third Calender, part 14: the narrator…

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To whom did the genius, disguised as an old man, return the narrator's personal possessions?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, narrator · **What happens:** do, disguise, return, possess · **To what, where:** genius, personal possessions

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 174 «Arabian Nights, The Third Calender, part 14: the narrator smashes the talisman, and the genius catches him» 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/174-pg128-part14/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:174-pg128-part14:e2:1
# text = To whom did the genius, disguised as an old man, return the narrator's personal possessions?
1	To	to	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	disguised	disguise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the genius |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Eventuality |
| 2 | **disguise** | participle |  | the genius *not said here* |  |  |  | as a old man | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | imperative | you *not said here* | the narrator's personal possessions |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
| 4 | **possess** |  | the narrator |  |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=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 {#o1}

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To the princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:174-pg128-part14:e2:o1:1
# text = To the princess
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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To the narrator at the palace gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:174-pg128-part14:e2:o2:1
# text = To the narrator at the palace gate
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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To the narrator at the tailor's dwelling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:174-pg128-part14:e2:o3:1
# text = To the narrator at the tailor's dwelling
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To the narrator in the garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:174-pg128-part14:e2:o4:1
# text = To the narrator in the garden
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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