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title: Yo, who was the bloke half-cut on wine, like? — Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, who was the bloke half-cut on wine, like? Test 3 · ★ 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 tre
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# Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10:…

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Yo, who was the bloke half-cut on wine, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** cut, be · **To what, where:** bloke cut wine

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t3:1
# text = Yo, who was the bloke half-cut on wine, like?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
6	bloke	bloke	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
7	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the bloke cut wine |  |  | 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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The porter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t3:o1:1
# text = The porter
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The bloke guarding the door at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t3:o2:1
# text = The bloke guarding the door at night
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	guarding	guard	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | gerund | the bloke *not said here* | the door |  |  | night |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The chief eunuch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t3:o3:1
# text = The chief eunuch
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	eunuch	eunuch	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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The black dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t3:o4:1
# text = The black dog
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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