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title: Which reason is given in the text for Harisarman's decision to steal… — Ocean of Story, Gangazara and Harisarm… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which reason is given in the text for Harisarman's decision to steal the horse? Exam question 4 of lesson 1832 «Ocean of Story, Gangazara and Harisarman, part 16: Gangazara is revived, the king repents, and Harisarman gets a magic name» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependen
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# Exam question 4 · Ocean of Story, Gangazara and Harisarman, part 16: Gangaza…

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Which reason is given in the text for Harisarman's decision to steal the horse?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Harisarman · **What happens:** give, steal, decide · **To what, where:** reason, text, horse

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1832 «Ocean of Story, Gangazara and Harisarman, part 16: Gangazara is revived, the king repents, and Harisarman gets a magic name» 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/1832-pg7128-part16/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1832-pg7128-part16:e4:1
# text = Which reason is given in the text for Harisarman's decision to steal the horse?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Harisarman	Harisarman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | which reason |  | the text |  | for Harisarman's decision | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for decision=Asset |
| 2 | **steal** | to-infinitive |  | the horse |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme |
| 3 | **decide** |  | Harisarman |  |  |  |  |  | nom decision «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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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To acquire respect as a magician

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1832-pg7128-part16:e4:o1:1
# text = To acquire respect as a magician
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	acquire	acquire	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **acquire** | to-infinitive |  | respect |  |  |  | as a magician | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset respect=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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To look like a magic man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1832-pg7128-part16:e4:o2:1
# text = To look like a magic man
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | like a magic man | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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For money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1832-pg7128-part16:e4:o3:1
# text = For money
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To win the respect of his village

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1832-pg7128-part16:e4:o4:1
# text = To win the respect of his village
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	win	win	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | to-infinitive |  | the respect of his village |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Eventuality |
| 2 | **respect** |  |  | his village |  |  |  |  | nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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