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title: What occasioned the Sultan's inquiry concerning the hunchback? — Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33… · tree and pragmatics
description: What occasioned the Sultan's inquiry concerning the hunchback? Exam question 4 of lesson 193 «Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33: the tailor confesses, the Sultan summons everyone, and Alnaschar dreams of riches» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33: the tailor confess…

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What occasioned the Sultan's inquiry concerning the hunchback?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** inquiry, Sultan · **What happens:** occasion, concern, inquire · **To what, where:** inquiry, hunchback

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 193 «Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33: the tailor confesses, the Sultan summons everyone, and Alnaschar dreams of riches» 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/193-pg128-part33/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:193-pg128-part33:e4:1
# text = What occasioned the Sultan's inquiry concerning the hunchback?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	occasioned	occasion	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	inquiry	inquiry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occasion** | past |  | the Sultan's inquiry |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **concern** | gerund | the Sultan's inquiry *not said here* | the hunchback |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunchback=Experiencer |
| 3 | **inquire** |  | the Sultan |  |  |  |  |  | nom inquiry «cognition 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 {#o1}

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The arrival of a foreign envoy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:193-pg128-part33:e4:o1:1
# text = The arrival of a foreign envoy
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	envoy	envoy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** |  | a foreign envoy |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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

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The absence of his jester

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:193-pg128-part33:e4:o2:1
# text = The absence of his jester
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	jester	jester	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **absent** |  |  | his jester |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The absence of his jester at the morning audience and the feast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:193-pg128-part33:e4:o3:1
# text = The absence of his jester at the morning audience and the feast
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	jester	jester	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **absent** |  |  | his jester at the morning audience and the feast |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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The death of his vizir

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:193-pg128-part33:e4:o4:1
# text = The death of his vizir
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** |  | his vizir |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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