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title: fam, what did the narrator do to the groom after the horses got skin… — Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 9:… · tree and pragmatics
description: fam, what did the narrator do to the groom after the horses got skinny? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1208 «Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 9: Almas follows Gul and unmasks the princess's secret» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 9: Almas follows Gul an…

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fam, what did the narrator do to the groom after the horses got skinny?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fam, horses · **What happens:** do, get · **To what, where:** skinny

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1208 «Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 9: Almas follows Gul and unmasks the princess's secret» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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/1208-pg3282-part9/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1208-pg3282-part9:t13:1
# text = fam, what did the narrator do to the groom after the horses got skinny?
1	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	groom	groom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
15	skinny	skinny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · do-support | fam |  |  |  |  | to the groom | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **get** | past | the horses | skinny |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skinny=Stimulus |

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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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nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1208-pg3282-part9:t13:o1:1
# text = nothing
1	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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he yelled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1208-pg3282-part9:t13:o2:1
# text = he yelled
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	yelled	yell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yell** *speech: express* | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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he fed him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1208-pg3282-part9:t13:o3:1
# text = he fed him
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past | he |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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he beat him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1208-pg3282-part9:t13:o4:1
# text = he beat him
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | past | he | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=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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