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title: Peak, what did the boy say when he got home with the dates? — Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the yo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Peak, what did the boy say when he got home with the dates? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1794 «Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards the date tree and catches the bird» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 10 · ★ · Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards th…

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Peak, what did the boy say when he got home with the dates?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Peak · **What happens:** do, say, get · **To what, where:** boy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1794 «Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards the date tree and catches the bird» 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/1794-pg641-part45/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t10:1
# text = Peak, what did the boy say when he got home with the dates?
1	Peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Peak | the boy |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Peak |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **get** | past | Peak |  |  |  |  | with the dates; home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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"Look at my dates"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t10:o1:1
# text = "Look at my dates"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at my dates | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at date=Theme |

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

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"This is MY luck"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t10:o2:1
# text = "This is MY luck"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	MY	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | MY luck |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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"Lucky!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t10:o3:1
# text = "Lucky!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Lucky	Lucky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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"Mine"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t10:o4:1
# text = "Mine"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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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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