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description: Which object did the Sultan first enquire about upon entering the princess's garden? Exam question 1 of lesson 233 «Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water: the Sultan meets his children and his wife comes home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the d
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# Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

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Which object did the Sultan first enquire about upon entering the princess's garden?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** enquire, enter · **To what, where:** garden

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 233 «Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water: the Sultan meets his children and his wife comes home» 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/233-pg128-part73/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:e1:1
# text = Which object did the Sultan first enquire about upon entering the princess's garden?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
7	enquire	enquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enquire** *speech: other* | past · do-support | which object |  |  |  |  | about, first *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **enter** | gerund | which object *not said here* | the princess's garden |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme garden=Destination |

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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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the golden flask

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:e1:o1:1
# text = the golden flask
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	flask	flask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the Singing Tree and the golden water beside it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:e1:o2:1
# text = the Singing Tree and the golden water beside it
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Singing	Singing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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the Singing Tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:e1:o3:1
# text = the Singing Tree
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Singing	Singing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the Singing Tree that grew in the princess's garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:e1:o4:1
# text = the Singing Tree that grew in the princess's garden
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Singing	Singing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the Singing Tree |  |  | the princess's garden |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location |

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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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