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title: what's a khan then, is it like a posh hotel or a shop? — Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prin… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's a khan then, is it like a posh hotel or a shop? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1493 «Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 80: Houssain buys a magic tapestry in Bisnagar» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fai…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
what's a khan then, is it like a posh hotel or a shop?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** khan · **What happens:** be

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1493 «Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 80: Houssain buys a magic tapestry in Bisnagar» 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/1493-pg503-part80/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1493-pg503-part80:t7:1
# text = what's a khan then, is it like a posh hotel or a shop?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	khan	khan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hotel	hotel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a khan |  |  |  | then | like a posh hotel or a shop | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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A large walled courtyard where foreign merchants keep goods and camels overnight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1493-pg503-part80:t7:o1:1
# text = A large walled courtyard where foreign merchants keep goods and camels overnight
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	walled	wall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
6	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | present | foreign merchants | a large walled courtyard |  |  |  | overnight *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A market stall for traders

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1493-pg503-part80:t7:o2:1
# text = A market stall for traders
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
An inn for merchants to kip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1493-pg503-part80:t7:o3:1
# text = An inn for merchants to kip
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	kip	kip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kip** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A kind of hotel where traders rest their camels and sleep with their goods in a courtyard

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1493-pg503-part80:t7:o4:1
# text = A kind of hotel where traders rest their camels and sleep with their goods in a courtyard
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	hotel	hotel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
6	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rest	rest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | present | traders | traders's camels |  | a courtyard |  | with traders's goods | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent camel=Theme in courtyard=Location |
| 2 | **sleep** | present | traders *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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