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title: Which contrivance did the princess devise to recall the old woman fr… — Arabian Nights, The Princess Gulizar,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which contrivance did the princess devise to recall the old woman from the palace? Exam question 4 of lesson 1853 «Arabian Nights, The Princess Gulizar, part 37: a poisoned pilaw meant for the vizier's son» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Princess Gulizar, part 37: a poisoned…

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Which contrivance did the princess devise to recall the old woman from the palace?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** contrivance, princess · **What happens:** do, devise, recall · **To what, where:** old woman, palace

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1853 «Arabian Nights, The Princess Gulizar, part 37: a poisoned pilaw meant for the vizier's son» 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/1853-pg7128-part37/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1853-pg7128-part37:e4:1
# text = Which contrivance did the princess devise to recall the old woman from the palace?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	contrivance	contrivance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	devise	devise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	recall	recall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which contrivance |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **devise** | present | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **recall** | to-infinitive | the princess *not said here* | the old woman |  | the palace |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent woman=Theme from palace=Source |

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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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A letter from her dead uncle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1853-pg7128-part37:e4:o1:1
# text = A letter from her dead uncle
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A rumour about a rebel army

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1853-pg7128-part37:e4:o2:1
# text = A rumour about a rebel army
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rumour	rumour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	rebel	rebel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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A story of royal elephants running wild

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1853-pg7128-part37:e4:o3:1
# text = A story of royal elephants running wild
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund | royal elephants *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wild *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A royal decree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1853-pg7128-part37:e4:o4:1
# text = A royal decree
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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