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title: Lol, what did the brothers do all night to stay awake? — Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the yo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what did the brothers do all night to stay awake? Test 3 · ★ 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; Mova
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# Test 3 · ★ · Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards th…

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Lol, what did the brothers do all night to stay awake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** stay

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t3:1
# text = Lol, what did the brothers do all night to stay awake?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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Played cards and told each other long stories all night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t3:o1:1
# text = Played cards and told each other long stories all night
1	Played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Played cards | each other long stories |  |  | night |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sang loudly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t3:o2:1
# text = Sang loudly
1	Sang	Sang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ate every sweet and argued over the dice until dawn came up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t3:o3:1
# text = Ate every sweet and argued over the dice until dawn came up
1	Ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	sweet	sweet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	argued	argue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dice	dice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
12	up	up	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past |  | every sweet |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | past |  |  |  |  |  | over the dice | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over dice=Theme |
| 3 | **come up** | past | dawn |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Played cards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t3:o4:1
# text = Played cards
1	Played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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