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title: is the fisherman lowkey smart or what? — Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: is the fisherman lowkey smart or what? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 165 «Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genie, part 5: the jar is opened and a furious genie appears» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice
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# Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genie, part 5: the j…

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is the fisherman lowkey smart or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 165 «Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genie, part 5: the jar is opened and a furious genie appears» 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/165-pg128-part5/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:165-pg128-part5:t5:1
# text = is the fisherman lowkey smart or what?
1	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | the fisherman lowkey *obl:unmarked*; smart *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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he tricks the genie back into the jar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:165-pg128-part5:t5:o1:1
# text = he tricks the genie back into the jar
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tricks	trick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	genie	genie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick back** | present | he | the genie |  |  |  | into the jar *result* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent genie=Patient into jar=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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he tricks the genie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:165-pg128-part5:t5:o2:1
# text = he tricks the genie
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tricks	trick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	genie	genie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | present | he | the genie |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genie=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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he fools the genie into the vase

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:165-pg128-part5:t5:o3:1
# text = he fools the genie into the vase
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fools	fool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	genie	genie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fool** | present | he | the genie |  |  |  | into the vase *result* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent genie=Patient into vase=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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he tells the genie to hide inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:165-pg128-part5:t5:o4:1
# text = he tells the genie to hide inside
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	genie	genie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | he | the genie |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent genie=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hide** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the genie *not said here* |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «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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