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title: What was the narrator's proposed method of escape from the island? — Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the narrator's proposed method of escape from the island? Exam question 2 of lesson 184 «Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a castle of giants, and a hungry snake» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a cas…

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What was the narrator's proposed method of escape from the island?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** propose, be · **To what, where:** proposed method

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 184 «Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a castle of giants, and a hungry snake» 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/184-pg128-part24/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:e2:1
# text = What was the narrator's proposed method of escape from the island?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the narrator's proposed method |  |  |  | of escape from the island | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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the construction of rafts to sail back home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:e2:o1:1
# text = the construction of rafts to sail back home
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	rafts	raft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail back** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **construct** |  |  | rafts |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the construction of rafts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:e2:o2:1
# text = the construction of rafts
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	rafts	raft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **construct** |  |  | rafts |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the building of boats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:e2:o3:1
# text = the building of boats
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the construction of several large rafts from the palace wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:e2:o4:1
# text = the construction of several large rafts from the palace wood
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rafts	raft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **construct** |  |  | several large rafts from the palace wood |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act 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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