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title: wait, the genie promised rich stuff in the first century, right? — Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, the genie promised rich stuff in the first century, right? Test 6 · ★ 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 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genie, part 5: the j…

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wait, the genie promised rich stuff in the first century, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, genie · **What happens:** wait, promise · **To what, where:** rich stuff

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:165-pg128-part5:t6:1
# text = wait, the genie promised rich stuff in the first century, right?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	genie	genie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the genie | rich stuff |  |  | century |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent stuff=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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rich after he was dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:165-pg128-part5:t6:o1:1
# text = rich after he was dead
1	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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rich even after death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:165-pg128-part5:t6:o2:1
# text = rich even after death
1	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:165-pg128-part5:t6:o3:1
# text = rich forever
1	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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rich when old

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:165-pg128-part5:t6:o4:1
# text = rich when old
1	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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