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title: How many camels did the dervish remove upon his departure toward Bal… — Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 1: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: How many camels did the dervish remove upon his departure toward Balsora? Exam question 2 of lesson 216 «Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 1: the blind man's curse ends, and the Caliph questions the cruel young man» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 1: the blind man's curse…

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How many camels did the dervish remove upon his departure toward Balsora?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many camels, dervish · **What happens:** remove, depart

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 216 «Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 1: the blind man's curse ends, and the Caliph questions the cruel young man» 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/216-pg128-part56/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:216-pg128-part56:e2:1
# text = How many camels did the dervish remove upon his departure toward Balsora?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** | past · do-support | many camels |  |  |  |  | upon dervish's departure; toward Balsora | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **depart** |  | dervish |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: 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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all of the camels in his caravan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:216-pg128-part56:e2:o1:1
# text = all of the camels in his caravan
1	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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eighty camels and four mules

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:216-pg128-part56:e2:o2:1
# text = eighty camels and four mules
1	eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	mules	mule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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seventy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:216-pg128-part56:e2:o3:1
# text = seventy
1	seventy	seventy	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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eighty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:216-pg128-part56:e2:o4:1
# text = eighty
1	eighty	eighty	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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