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title: Was the bro allowed to chat at the palace, or nah? — Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the bro allowed to chat at the palace, or nah? Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the gazelle wins the sul…

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Was the bro allowed to chat at the palace, or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** be, allow, chat · **To what, where:** bro, palace

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1772-pg641-part23:t9:1
# text = Was the bro allowed to chat at the palace, or nah?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	chat	chat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
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	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	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 bro |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **allow** | participle · passive |  | the bro |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **chat** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the bro *not said here* |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «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 {#o1}

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nah, only soldiers talk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1772-pg641-part23:t9:o1:1
# text = nah, only soldiers talk
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | present | soldiers |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, only greetings and news

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1772-pg641-part23:t9:o2:1
# text = nah, only greetings and news
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	greetings	greeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, he could chat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1772-pg641-part23:t9:o3:1
# text = yeah, he could chat
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	chat	chat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chat** *speech: other* | could | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, he can chat to anyone he fancies, like

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1772-pg641-part23:t9:o4:1
# text = yeah, he can chat to anyone he fancies, like
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	chat	chat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fancies	fancy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chat** *speech: other* | can | he |  |  |  |  | to anyone | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fancy** | present | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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