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title: Wait, so who was the pedlar really? — Eastern Stories and Legends, Nur Mahom… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, so who was the pedlar really? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1254 «Eastern Stories and Legends, Nur Mahomed, part 55: the old woman's foundling becomes a soldier, and a dog dies after a meal» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 3 · ★ · Eastern Stories and Legends, Nur Mahomed, part 55: the old…

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Wait, so who was the pedlar really?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** pedlar

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1254 «Eastern Stories and Legends, Nur Mahomed, part 55: the old woman's foundling becomes a soldier, and a dog dies after a meal» 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/1254-pg3282-part55/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1254-pg3282-part55:t3:1
# text = Wait, so who was the pedlar really?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	really	really	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the pedlar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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A travelling pedlar who was really the king's chief minister in disguise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1254-pg3282-part55:t3:o1:1
# text = A travelling pedlar who was really the king's chief minister in disguise
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a travelling pedlar | the king's chief minister |  | disguise |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The king, in disguise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1254-pg3282-part55:t3:o2:1
# text = The king, in disguise
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The king's own brother, who had been plotting the whole time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1254-pg3282-part55:t3:o3:1
# text = The king's own brother, who had been plotting the whole time
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux	_	_
10	plotting	plot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plot** | past · perfect · progressive | the king's own brother |  |  |  | time |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Just a regular trader

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1254-pg3282-part55:t3:o4:1
# text = Just a regular trader
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	trader	trader	NOUN	NN	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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