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title: Bare weird, what did the porter lead in on a chain? — Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bare weird, what did the porter lead in on a chain? Test 5 · ★ 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 dependen
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# Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10:…

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Bare weird, what did the porter lead in on a chain?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** porter · **What happens:** do, lead

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t5:1
# text = Bare weird, what did the porter lead in on a chain?
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	porter	port	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lead	lead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lead** | present | the porter |  |  |  |  | in a chain | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition in chain=Patient |

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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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Two black horses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t5:o1:1
# text = Two black horses
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Three grey mules

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t5:o2:1
# text = Three grey mules
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mules	mule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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One black cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t5:o3:1
# text = One black cat
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Two black dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t5:o4:1
# text = Two black dogs
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dogs	dog	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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