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title: ngl, how did the merchants feel when they found him? — Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, how did the merchants feel when they found him? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 183 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 23: Sindbad escapes the diamond valley on an eagle's meat and sails home with the merchants.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 23: Sindbad escap…

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ngl, how did the merchants feel when they found him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** merchants · **What happens:** feel, find · **To what, where:** ngl

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 183 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 23: Sindbad escapes the diamond valley on an eagle's meat and sails home with the merchants.» 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/183-pg128-part23/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:183-pg128-part23:t13:1
# text = ngl, how did the merchants feel when they found him?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past · do-support | the merchants |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **find** | past | merchants *= merchant* | ngl |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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they were shocked and upset

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:183-pg128-part23:t13:o1:1
# text = they were shocked and upset
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	shocked	shocked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | they |  |  |  |  | shocked *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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they were amazed and mad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:183-pg128-part23:t13:o2:1
# text = they were amazed and mad
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	amazed	amazed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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scared

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:183-pg128-part23:t13:o3:1
# text = scared
1	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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happy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:183-pg128-part23:t13:o4:1
# text = happy
1	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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