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title: Yo, so the envious guy shoves the dervish down a well, right? — Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, so the envious guy shoves the dervish down a well, right? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 175 «Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15: the dervish is saved by fairies, the cat's hairs are burned, and the narrator is turned into a monkey» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15:…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yo, so the envious guy shoves the dervish down a well, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** envious guy · **What happens:** shove down · **To what, where:** dervish

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 175 «Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15: the dervish is saved by fairies, the cat's hairs are burned, and the narrator is turned into a monkey» 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/175-pg128-part15/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:175-pg128-part15:t1:1
# text = Yo, so the envious guy shoves the dervish down a well, right?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	shoves	shove	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shove down** | present | the envious guy | the dervish |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dervish=Destination well=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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Yep, off a cliff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:175-pg128-part15:t1:o1:1
# text = Yep, off a cliff
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yep, down a dry cistern

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:175-pg128-part15:t1:o2:1
# text = Yep, down a dry cistern
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cistern	cistern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yep, into the old well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:175-pg128-part15:t1:o3:1
# text = Yep, into the old well
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, into a river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:175-pg128-part15:t1:o4:1
# text = Nah, into a river
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	river	river	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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