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title: Who had to guide the whole massive lot to Wali Dâd's gaff? — Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who had to guide the whole massive lot to Wali Dâd's gaff? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1257 «Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the old man tries to drown himself, and two Peris appear» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 6 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the o…

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Who had to guide the whole massive lot to Wali Dâd's gaff?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** have, guide · **To what, where:** whole massive lot, gaff

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1257 «Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the old man tries to drown himself, and two Peris appear» 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/1257-pg3282-part58/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t6:1
# text = Who had to guide the whole massive lot to Wali Dâd's gaff?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	guide	guide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	Wali	Wali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	gaff	gaff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **guide** | to-infinitive |  | the whole massive lot |  | Wali Dâd's gaff |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lot=Theme to gaff=Destination |

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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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the prince's own servant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t6:o1:1
# text = the prince's own servant
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	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	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the merchant, straight up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t6:o2:1
# text = the merchant, straight up
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the merchant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t6:o3:1
# text = the merchant
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	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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the merchant, straight up, with his whole caravan of men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t6:o4:1
# text = the merchant, straight up, with his whole caravan of men
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	straight	straight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **straight up** | infinitive | the merchant |  |  |  |  | with merchant's whole caravan of men | 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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