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title: what did the scorpion turn into when he was losing? — Arabian Nights, The Story of the Secon… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the scorpion turn into when he was losing? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 177 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17: the genius is burned, and the third Calender begins his tale» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17:…

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what did the scorpion turn into when he was losing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** scorpion · **What happens:** do, turn, lose

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 177 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17: the genius is burned, and the third Calender begins his tale» 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/177-pg128-part17/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:177-pg128-part17:t12:1
# text = what did the scorpion turn into when he was losing?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	scorpion	scorpion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | present | the scorpion |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | past · progressive | scorpion |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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an eagle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:177-pg128-part17:t12:o1:1
# text = an eagle
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a huge bird that flew up over the palace walls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:177-pg128-part17:t12:o2:1
# text = a huge bird that flew up over the palace walls
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly up** | past | a huge bird |  |  | the palace walls |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wall=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a sparrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:177-pg128-part17:t12:o3:1
# text = a sparrow
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a great black eagle with iron talons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:177-pg128-part17:t12:o4:1
# text = a great black eagle with iron talons
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	talons	talon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	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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