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title: What did Wali Dâd want the merchant to do, like, the next day? — Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did Wali Dâd want the merchant to do, like, the next day? Test 8 · ★ 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 questi
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# Test 8 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the o…

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What did Wali Dâd want the merchant to do, like, the next day?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Wali, you · **What happens:** want, like · **To what, where:** merchant

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t8:1
# text = What did Wali Dâd want the merchant to do, like, the next day?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	Wali	Wali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	like	like	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past · do-support | Wali | the merchant |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme merchant=Attribute |
| 2 | **like** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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keep them waiting one day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t8:o1:1
# text = keep them waiting one day
1	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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keep them waiting one day, then send the gifts back to the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t8:o2:1
# text = keep them waiting one day, then send the gifts back to the king
1	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **send back** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the gifts | the king |  | then |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to king=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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keep them waiting one whole day before they go on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t8:o3:1
# text = keep them waiting one whole day before they go on
1	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go on** | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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keep them moving one day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t8:o4:1
# text = keep them moving one day
1	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | gerund | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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