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title: ngl, how did the cobbler's eyes get covered? — Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, how did the cobbler's eyes get covered? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 57: C…

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ngl, how did the cobbler's eyes get covered?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** cover · **To what, where:** ngl

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1470-pg503-part57:t8:1
# text = ngl, how did the cobbler's eyes get covered?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past · passive · do-support |  | ngl |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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with a blindfold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1470-pg503-part57:t8:o1:1
# text = with a blindfold
1	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	blindfold	blindfold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
with a dark cloth tied tightly around his head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1470-pg503-part57:t8:o2:1
# text = with a dark cloth tied tightly around his head
1	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	around	around	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | participle |  | a dark cloth *not said here* |  | his head |  | tightly *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
with the thick cloak that Morgiana had brought

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1470-pg503-part57:t8:o3:1
# text = with the thick cloak that Morgiana had brought
1	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | the thick cloak |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
with a handkerchief

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1470-pg503-part57:t8:o4:1
# text = with a handkerchief
1	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	handkerchief	handkerchief	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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