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title: Who found him on the plain, like the lads with the horses? — Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who found him on the plain, like the lads with the horses? Test 14 · ★ 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 
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# Test 14 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 21: Hindbad the p…

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Who found him on the plain, like the lads with the horses?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** find · **To what, where:** him, plain

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This is test 14 · ★ 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/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:181-pg128-part21:t14:1
# text = Who found him on the plain, like the lads with the horses?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past |  | him *= he* |  | the plain |  | like the lads with the horses | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |

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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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a shepherd

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:181-pg128-part21:t14:o1:1
# text = a shepherd
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shepherd	shepherd	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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a groom of king Mihrage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:181-pg128-part21:t14:o2:1
# text = a groom of king Mihrage
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	groom	groom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Mihrage	Mihrage	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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a servant of the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:181-pg128-part21:t14:o3:1
# text = a servant of the king
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a hunter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:181-pg128-part21:t14:o4:1
# text = a hunter
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	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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