--- title: Which person did the vizir Khacan fear would inform the king of the… — Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Which person did the vizir Khacan fear would inform the king of the events in his household? Exam question 1 of lesson 206 «Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a slave for the king, and his son falls for her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/206-pg128-part46/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/206-pg128-part46/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a s… Which person did the vizir Khacan fear would inform the king of the events in his household? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** person, Khacan fear · **What happens:** do, inform · **To what, where:** vizir, king This is exam question 1 of lesson 206 «Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a slave for the king, and his son falls for her» 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/206-pg128-part46/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:e1:1 # text = Which person did the vizir Khacan fear would inform the king of the events in his household? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 person person 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 vizir vizir NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 Khacan Khacan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 inform inform VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 events event NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 household household NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | which person | the vizir | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizir=Eventuality | | 2 | **inform** *speech: other* | would | Khacan fear | the vizir *not said here* | the king of the events in fear's household | | | | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | 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} Khacan ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:e1:o1:1 # text = Khacan 1 Khacan Khacan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Saouy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:e1:o2:1 # text = Saouy 1 Saouy Saouy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Bahram ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:e1:o3:1 # text = Bahram 1 Bahram Bahram PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Omar ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:e1:o4:1 # text = Omar 1 Omar Omar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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