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title: bro, which tree did Ali Baba climb to hide? — Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, which tree did Ali Baba climb to hide? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1470 «Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 57: Cassim is killed and the thieves send a spy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 57: C…

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bro, which tree did Ali Baba climb to hide?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro, Ali · **What happens:** do, climb, hide

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1470 «Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 57: Cassim is killed and the thieves send a spy» 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/1470-pg503-part57/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1470-pg503-part57:t1:1
# text = bro, which tree did Ali Baba climb to hide?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	climb	climb	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | bro and which tree |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **climb** | present | Ali |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | to-infinitive | Ali *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «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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the old fig by the road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1470-pg503-part57:t1:o1:1
# text = the old fig by the road
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fig	fig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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 big one by the rocks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1470-pg503-part57:t1:o2:1
# text = the big one by the rocks
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a palm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1470-pg503-part57:t1:o3:1
# text = a palm
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	palm	palm	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 oak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1470-pg503-part57:t1:o4:1
# text = the oak
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oak	oak	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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