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title: Bro, why did the envious dude even wanna drop the dervish? — Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, why did the envious dude even wanna drop the dervish? Test 2 · ★ 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 the
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# Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15:…

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Bro, why did the envious dude even wanna drop the dervish?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** drop · **To what, where:** dervish

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:175-pg128-part15:t2:1
# text = Bro, why did the envious dude even wanna drop the dervish?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	wanna	wanna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	dep	_	_
10	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | past · do-support |  | the dervish |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dervish=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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Greed, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:175-pg128-part15:t2:o1:1
# text = Greed, bro
1	Greed	greed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He was super envious

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:175-pg128-part15:t2:o2:1
# text = He was super envious
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	super	super	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | He |  |  |  |  | envious, super *property* | tree rules |

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

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He was lowkey jealous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:175-pg128-part15:t2:o3:1
# text = He was lowkey jealous
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | He |  |  |  |  | jealous, lowkey *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cause he wanted the dervish's whole robe and the monastery cell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:175-pg128-part15:t2:o4:1
# text = Cause he wanted the dervish's whole robe and the monastery cell
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	monastery	monastery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	cell	cell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | Cause | the dervish's whole robe and the monastery cell |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot robe=Theme |

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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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