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title: Real talk, what was the boy's dad scared of? — Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, what was the boy's dad scared of? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 178 «Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea, then frees a boy from an underground tomb» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea…

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Real talk, what was the boy's dad scared of?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Real talk · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** dad

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 178 «Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea, then frees a boy from an underground tomb» 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/178-pg128-part18/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:178-pg128-part18:t10:1
# text = Real talk, what was the boy's dad scared of?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
10	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Real talk | the boy's dad |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A prophecy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:178-pg128-part18:t10:o1:1
# text = A prophecy
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Thieves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:178-pg128-part18:t10:o2:1
# text = Thieves
1	Thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A war at sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:178-pg128-part18:t10:o3:1
# text = A war at sea
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Storms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:178-pg128-part18:t10:o4:1
# text = Storms
1	Storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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