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description: In what manner did the vizir's wife propose to recover the lost honour of the household? Exam question 3 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 and p
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# Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a s…

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In what manner did the vizir's wife propose to recover the lost honour of the household?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, propose, recover, lose, honour · **To what, where:** wife, manner, lost honour, household

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:e3:1
# text = In what manner did the vizir's wife propose to recover the lost honour of the household?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	propose	propose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the vizir's wife |  | what manner |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality |
| 2 | **propose** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **recover** | to-infinitive |  | the lost honour of the household |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Theme |
| 4 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **honour** |  |  | the household |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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By buying another slave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:e3:o1:1
# text = By buying another slave
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | gerund |  | another slave |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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By asking the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:e3:o2:1
# text = By asking the king
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  | the king |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By sending her away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:e3:o3:1
# text = By sending her away
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send away** | gerund |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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By selling jewels

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:e3:o4:1
# text = By selling jewels
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | gerund |  | jewels |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme |

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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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