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title: Yo, what did the old lady shout on the bridge to call Ali? — Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what did the old lady shout on the bridge to call Ali? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1235 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head makes the sultan's hill into a garden» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head make…

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Yo, what did the old lady shout on the bridge to call Ali?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old lady · **What happens:** shout, call · **To what, where:** bridge, Ali · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1235 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head makes the sultan's hill into a garden» 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/1235-pg3282-part36/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:t4:1
# text = Yo, what did the old lady shout on the bridge to call Ali?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | past · do-support | the old lady |  |  | the bridge |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 2 | **call** | to-infinitive | the old lady *not said here* |  | Ali |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ali=Recipient |

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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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Omar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:t4:o1:1
# text = Omar
1	Omar	Omar	PROPN	NNP	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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Ed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:t4:o2:1
# text = Ed
1	Ed	Ed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Ali

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:t4:o3:1
# text = Ali
1	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Al

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:t4:o4:1
# text = Al
1	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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