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# Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 25: Sindbad escap…

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By what name was the deceased merchant's cargo registered upon the ship's manifest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cargo · **What happens:** decease, be, register · **To what, where:** cargo

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 185 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 25: Sindbad escapes the snake, is rescued, gets his goods back, and meets cruel islanders» 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/185-pg128-part25/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:185-pg128-part25:e2:1
# text = By what name was the deceased merchant's cargo registered upon the ship's manifest?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	deceased	decease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	cargo	cargo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	registered	register	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	manifest	manifest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decease** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the deceased merchant's cargo |  |  |  | by name | tree rules |
| 3 | **register** | past | the deceased merchant's cargo |  |  |  |  | upon the ship's manifest | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: 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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In the name of Sindbad the Sailor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:185-pg128-part25:e2:o1:1
# text = In the name of Sindbad the Sailor
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sailor	Sailor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** |  |  | Sindbad |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Listed to the old dead merchant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:185-pg128-part25:e2:o2:1
# text = Listed to the old dead merchant
1	Listed	list	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **list** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to the old dead merchant | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sindbad's name

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:185-pg128-part25:e2:o3:1
# text = Sindbad's name
1	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** |  | Sindbad |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Under the name of Hindbad the Porter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:185-pg128-part25:e2:o4:1
# text = Under the name of Hindbad the Porter
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Hindbad	Hindbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Porter	Porter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** |  |  | Hindbad |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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