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title: Was the fisherman rich or proper poor, be honest? — Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the G… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the fisherman rich or proper poor, be honest? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 164 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three old men tell their wonderful tales, and the fisherman casts his net» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three…

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Was the fisherman rich or proper poor, be honest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fisherman · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fisherman

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 164 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three old men tell their wonderful tales, and the fisherman casts his net» 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/164-pg128-part4/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:t10:1
# text = Was the fisherman rich or proper poor, be honest?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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 | **is a** | past |  | the fisherman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | the fisherman |  |  |  |  | honest *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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Poor, honest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:t10:o1:1
# text = Poor, honest
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Quite poor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:t10:o2:1
# text = Quite poor
1	Quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Rich enough, with a big house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:t10:o3:1
# text = Rich enough, with a big house
1	Rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

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

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Proper poor, with three kids

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:t10:o4:1
# text = Proper poor, with three kids
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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