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title: Lol, what did the head call the second task? — Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what did the head call the second task? Test 8 · ★ 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; Mova's choice
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# Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head make…

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Lol, what did the head call the second task?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** head · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** second task · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:t8:1
# text = Lol, what did the head call the second task?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · do-support | the head | the second task |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme task=Result |

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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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little game

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:t8:o1:1
# text = little game
1	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	game	game	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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mere nonsense

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:t8:o2:1
# text = mere nonsense
1	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	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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child's play

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:t8:o3:1
# text = child's play
1	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** |  | child |  |  |  |  |  | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a task fit for a small child

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:t8:o4:1
# text = a task fit for a small child
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fit	fit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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