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title: Who was the bloke rolling up at the palace, innit? — Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was the bloke rolling up at the palace, innit? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1772 «Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the gazelle wins the sultan's favour and dresses its master in fine clothes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 7 · ★ · Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the gazelle wins the sul…

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Who was the bloke rolling up at the palace, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bloke · **What happens:** be, roll up, innit · **To what, where:** bloke, palace

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1772 «Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the gazelle wins the sultan's favour and dresses its master in fine clothes» 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/1772-pg641-part23/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1772-pg641-part23:t7:1
# text = Who was the bloke rolling up at the palace, innit?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the bloke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **roll up** | gerund | the bloke *not said here* |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at palace=Trajectory |
| 3 | **innit** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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a whole squad of the sultan's royal soldiers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1772-pg641-part23:t7:o1:1
# text = a whole squad of the sultan's royal soldiers
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	squad	squad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
some proper knights

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1772-pg641-part23:t7:o2:1
# text = some proper knights
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
loads of soldiers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1772-pg641-part23:t7:o3:1
# text = loads of soldiers
1	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a load of guards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1772-pg641-part23:t7:o4:1
# text = a load of guards
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	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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