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title: Where did the lads set sail from, like which port? — Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where did the lads set sail from, like which port? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 181 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 21: Hindbad the porter is summoned to Sindbad's feast and hears how the voyages began» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 21: Hindbad the p…

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Where did the lads set sail from, like which port?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lads · **What happens:** set · **To what, where:** sail, port

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 181 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 21: Hindbad the porter is summoned to Sindbad's feast and hears how the voyages began» 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/181-pg128-part21/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:181-pg128-part21:t11:1
# text = Where did the lads set sail from, like which port?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	11	det	_	_
11	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past · do-support | the lads | sail |  | which port |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sail=Result |

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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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the port of Balsora on the Persian Gulf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:181-pg128-part21:t11:o1:1
# text = the port of Balsora on the Persian Gulf
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cairo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:181-pg128-part21:t11:o2:1
# text = Cairo
1	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Balsora

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:181-pg128-part21:t11:o3:1
# text = Balsora
1	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	NNP	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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Damascus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:181-pg128-part21:t11:o4:1
# text = Damascus
1	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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