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title: what's schaibar's deal, is he creepy? — Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the F… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's schaibar's deal, is he creepy? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1499 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 86: Ahmed fetches the lions' water, then meets Schaibar, the Fairy's giant brother» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

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what's schaibar's deal, is he creepy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** deal

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1499 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 86: Ahmed fetches the lions' water, then meets Schaibar, the Fairy's giant brother» 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/1499-pg503-part86/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1499-pg503-part86:t9:1
# text = what's schaibar's deal, is he creepy?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	schaibar	schaibar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	creepy	creepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | schaibar's deal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | he |  |  |  |  | creepy *property* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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hump back, but he's rude

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1499-pg503-part86:t9:o1:1
# text = hump back, but he's rude
1	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | he |  |  |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
hump back, but honestly he's kind and helpful too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1499-pg503-part86:t9:o2:1
# text = hump back, but honestly he's kind and helpful too
1	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | he |  |  |  |  | honestly, kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
hump back, but he's kind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1499-pg503-part86:t9:o3:1
# text = hump back, but he's kind
1	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | he |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
hump back, but he seems kind and helpful too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1499-pg503-part86:t9:o4:1
# text = hump back, but he seems kind and helpful too
1	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | he | hump *not said here* |  |  |  | kind *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hump=Attribute |

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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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