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title: Dead confusing, what were the merchants wearing, like? — Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead confusing, what were the merchants wearing, like? Test 8 · ★ 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 depen
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# Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10:…

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Dead confusing, what were the merchants wearing, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** confusing merchants · **What happens:** be, wear · **To what, where:** confusing merchants

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t8:1
# text = Dead confusing, what were the merchants wearing, like?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	confusing	confusing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the confusing merchants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** | gerund | the confusing merchants |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |

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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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Cloaks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t8:o1:1
# text = Cloaks
1	Cloaks	cloak	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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Hats of the Calenders

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t8:o2:1
# text = Hats of the Calenders
1	Hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Calenders	calender	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Dresses of merchants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t8:o3:1
# text = Dresses of merchants
1	Dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tunics of the eunuchs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t8:o4:1
# text = Tunics of the eunuchs
1	Tunics	tunic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	eunuchs	eunuch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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