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title: Why did the proprietor of the cookshop ultimately withdraw his prote… — Arabian Nights, The Man Who Became a D… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did the proprietor of the cookshop ultimately withdraw his protection from the narrator? Exam question 4 of lesson 217 «Arabian Nights, The Man Who Became a Dog, part 57: a secret midnight feast, a curse, and a dog in a cookshop» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency 
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# Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Man Who Became a Dog, part 57: a secre…

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Why did the proprietor of the cookshop ultimately withdraw his protection from the narrator?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** proprietor · **What happens:** do, withdraw, protect · **To what, where:** protection, narrator

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 217 «Arabian Nights, The Man Who Became a Dog, part 57: a secret midnight feast, a curse, and a dog in a cookshop» 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/217-pg128-part57/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:217-pg128-part57:e4:1
# text = Why did the proprietor of the cookshop ultimately withdraw his protection from the narrator?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	proprietor	proprietor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cookshop	cookshop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **withdraw** | present | the proprietor of the cookshop | proprietor's protection |  | the narrator |  | ultimately *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent protection=Theme from narrator=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **protect** |  | proprietor |  |  |  |  |  | nom protection «act 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Because a customer complained about dogs in the shop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:217-pg128-part57:e4:o1:1
# text = Because a customer complained about dogs in the shop
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	customer	customer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	complained	complain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **complain** *speech: other* | participle | a customer |  |  | the shop |  | about dogs | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about dog=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Because the neighbours complained that the dog was too noisy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:217-pg128-part57:e4:o2:1
# text = Because the neighbours complained that the dog was too noisy
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	complained	complain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	noisy	noisy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **complain** *speech: other* | past | the neighbours |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the dog |  |  |  |  | noisy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Because he held all dogs to be unclean and defiling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:217-pg128-part57:e4:o3:1
# text = Because he held all dogs to be unclean and defiling
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	defiling	defile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | he | all dogs |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unclean *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **defile** | gerund | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Because he feared the dog would bite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:217-pg128-part57:e4:o4:1
# text = Because he feared the dog would bite
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	bite	bite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | past | he | the dog |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bite** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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