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title: What did Aladdin flog to get food, like? — Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonder… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did Aladdin flog to get food, like? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1431 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 18: the lamp, the genie, and a stolen wedding night» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 18: t…

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What did Aladdin flog to get food, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Aladdin · **What happens:** flog, get · **To what, where:** food

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1431 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 18: the lamp, the genie, and a stolen wedding night» 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/1431-pg503-part18/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1431-pg503-part18:t10:1
# text = What did Aladdin flog to get food, like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flog	flog	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flog** | past · do-support | Aladdin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | Aladdin *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus |

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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 silver dish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1431-pg503-part18:t10:o1:1
# text = A silver dish
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dish	dish	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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Loads of silver plates and the spare cloth, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1431-pg503-part18:t10:o2:1
# text = Loads of silver plates and the spare cloth, bruv
1	Loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	spare	spare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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A silver plate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1431-pg503-part18:t10:o3:1
# text = A silver plate
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	plate	plate	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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A silver plate from the big feast, like

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1431-pg503-part18:t10:o4:1
# text = A silver plate from the big feast, like
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

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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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