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title: Innit, what's a Calender in plain talk? — Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three… · tree and pragmatics
description: Innit, what's a Calender in plain talk? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 170 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10: three shaven Calenders come to the ladies' house, and the mystery of the dogs and the scars begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and
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# Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10:…

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Innit, what's a Calender in plain talk?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Innit · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Calender, plain talk

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 170 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10: three shaven Calenders come to the ladies' house, and the mystery of the dogs and the scars begins» 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/170-pg128-part10/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t12:1
# text = Innit, what's a Calender in plain talk?
1	Innit	Innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Calender	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|Typo=Yes	1	appos	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Innit | a Calender |  | plain talk |  |  | 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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A wandering holy man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t12:o1:1
# text = A wandering holy man
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
3	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A man who shaved his head for vows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t12:o2:1
# text = A man who shaved his head for vows
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shaved	shave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	vows	vow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shave** | past | a man | man's head |  |  |  | for vows | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A travelling merchant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t12:o3:1
# text = A travelling merchant
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	travelling	travelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A pilgrim who wanders from town to town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t12:o4:1
# text = A pilgrim who wanders from town to town
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pilgrim	pilgrim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanders	wander	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | present | a pilgrim |  |  | town |  | to town | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to town=Destination |

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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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