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title: Yo, what snack kept the boy awake? — Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the yo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what snack kept the boy awake? Test 4 · ★ 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's choice was wrong.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards th…

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Yo, what snack kept the boy awake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** snack · **What happens:** snack, keep · **To what, where:** boy

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t4:1
# text = Yo, what snack kept the boy awake?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snack** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | past | snack | the boy |  |  |  | awake *property* | vn keep-15.2 «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Sand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t4:o1:1
# text = Sand
1	Sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Sandy grit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t4:o2:1
# text = Sandy grit
1	Sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	grit	grit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Salt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t4:o3:1
# text = Salt
1	Salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A mouthful of sandy grit from the road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t4:o4:1
# text = A mouthful of sandy grit from the road
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	grit	grit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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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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