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title: In what manner did the narrator and the Calenders relate to one anot… — Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three… · tree and pragmatics
description: In what manner did the narrator and the Calenders relate to one another upon meeting at the city gate? Exam question 4 of lesson 180 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 20: the Golden Door is opened, a flying horse carries the narrator off and blinds his right eye» of the books c
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# Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 20:…

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In what manner did the narrator and the Calenders relate to one another upon meeting at the city gate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Calenders · **What happens:** do, relate, meet · **To what, where:** narrator, manner, one, city gate

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 180 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 20: the Golden Door is opened, a flying horse carries the narrator off and blinds his right eye» 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/180-pg128-part20/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:180-pg128-part20:e4:1
# text = In what manner did the narrator and the Calenders relate to one another upon meeting at the city gate?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Calenders	calender	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	relate	relate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	fixed	_	_
14	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the narrator |  | what manner |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent narrator=Eventuality |
| 2 | **relate** | present | the Calenders |  | one |  |  |  | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to one=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **meet** | gerund | the Calenders *not said here* |  |  | the city gate |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: 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 {#o1}

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They were all blind in the same eye and had all been shaved by the same barber

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:180-pg128-part20:e4:o1:1
# text = They were all blind in the same eye and had all been shaved by the same barber
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	shaved	shave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	barber	barber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | They |  |  | the same eye |  | all, blind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shave** | past · perfect · passive | the same barber |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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They were all blind in the same eye

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:180-pg128-part20:e4:o2:1
# text = They were all blind in the same eye
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | They |  |  | the same eye |  | all, blind *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They were all blind in the same eye, having each lost it on their own long journey through the desert

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:180-pg128-part20:e4:o3:1
# text = They were all blind in the same eye, having each lost it on their own long journey through the desert
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obj	_	_
12	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | They |  |  | the same eye |  | all, blind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | gerund |  | each |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient |
| 3 | **lose** | past | having | eye |  | their own long journey |  | through the desert | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **journey** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They met by chance and became friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:180-pg128-part20:e4:o4:1
# text = They met by chance and became friends
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | They |  |  |  |  | by chance | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **become** | past | They *not said here* | friends |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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