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title: so who's the bossy captain pretending to sell oil? — Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty… · tree and pragmatics
description: so who's the bossy captain pretending to sell oil? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1471 «Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 58: Morgiana foils the robbers' attack and dances at supper» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 58: M…

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so who's the bossy captain pretending to sell oil?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** pretend, sell · **To what, where:** oil

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1471 «Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 58: Morgiana foils the robbers' attack and dances at supper» 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/1471-pg503-part58/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1471-pg503-part58:t1:1
# text = so who's the bossy captain pretending to sell oil?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bossy	bossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sell** | to-infinitive |  | oil |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Theme |

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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 oil seller boss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1471-pg503-part58:t1:o1:1
# text = the oil seller boss
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	seller	seller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	boss	boss	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 -->
the captain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1471-pg503-part58:t1:o2:1
# text = the captain
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the robber captain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1471-pg503-part58:t1:o3:1
# text = the robber captain
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1471-pg503-part58:t1:o4:1
# text = a merchant
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|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.

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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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