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description: Was the king proper narked when Nur Mahomed turned up grinning at the durbar? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1255 «Tales of the Punjab, Nur Mahomed and the Princess, part 56: the princess swaps a letter and a wedding is ordered» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Test 1 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Nur Mahomed and the Princess, part 56…

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Was the king proper narked when Nur Mahomed turned up grinning at the durbar?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Nur · **What happens:** be, nark, turn up, grin · **To what, where:** king, durbar

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1255 «Tales of the Punjab, Nur Mahomed and the Princess, part 56: the princess swaps a letter and a wedding is ordered» 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/1255-pg3282-part56/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1255-pg3282-part56:t1:1
# text = Was the king proper narked when Nur Mahomed turned up grinning at the durbar?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	narked	nark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
7	Nur	Nur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	grinning	grin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	durbar	durbar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **nark** | past |  |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn up** | past | Nur |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grin** | gerund | Nur *not said here* |  |  | the durbar |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Not really

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1255-pg3282-part56:t1:o1:1
# text = Not really
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nah, he was chuffed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1255-pg3282-part56:t1:o2:1
# text = Nah, he was chuffed
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	chuffed	chuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuff** | past · passive |  | he |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he was narked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1255-pg3282-part56:t1:o3:1
# text = Yeah, he was narked
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	narked	nark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nark** | past · passive |  | he |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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Yeah, he was livid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1255-pg3282-part56:t1:o4:1
# text = Yeah, he was livid
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	livid	livid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | livid *property* | tree rules |

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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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