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title: According to the text, which official ordered the narrator's brother… — Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers,… · tree and pragmatics
description: According to the text, which official ordered the narrator's brother to depart the city permanently? Exam question 2 of lesson 195 «Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar takes revenge, then is robbed and banished; Schacabac meets a Barmecide» of the books course of Mova's primary
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# Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar…

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According to the text, which official ordered the narrator's brother to depart the city permanently?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** accord, order, depart · **To what, where:** brother, city

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 195 «Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar takes revenge, then is robbed and banished; Schacabac meets a Barmecide» 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/195-pg128-part35/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:195-pg128-part35:e2:1
# text = According to the text, which official ordered the narrator's brother to depart the city permanently?
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	appos	_	_
8	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	permanently	permanently	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **order** | past |  |  | the narrator's brother |  |  | accord the text | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **depart** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the city |  |  |  | permanently *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Initial\_Location |

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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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lord

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:195-pg128-part35:e2:o1:1
# text = lord
1	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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chief

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:195-pg128-part35:e2:o2:1
# text = chief
1	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the vizier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:195-pg128-part35:e2:o3:1
# text = the vizier
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vizier	vizier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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the judge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:195-pg128-part35:e2:o4:1
# text = the judge
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	judge	judge	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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