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title: Bet, how old was the boy they buried? — Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bet, how old was the boy they buried? Test 7 · ★ 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; Mova's choi
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# Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea…

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Bet, how old was the boy they buried?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bet, they · **What happens:** be, bury · **To what, where:** boy

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:178-pg128-part18:t7:1
# text = Bet, how old was the boy they buried?
1	Bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bet | the boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bury** | past | they | the boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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 {#o1}

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Sixteen or seventeen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:178-pg128-part18:t7:o1:1
# text = Sixteen or seventeen
1	Sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Twelve or thirteen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:178-pg128-part18:t7:o2:1
# text = Twelve or thirteen
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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Fourteen or fifteen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:178-pg128-part18:t7:o3:1
# text = Fourteen or fifteen
1	Fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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About fourteen or fifteen years old

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:178-pg128-part18:t7:o4:1
# text = About fourteen or fifteen years old
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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