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title: No lie, what was Harisarman's whole deal in the village? — Ocean of Story, Gangazara and Harisarm… · tree and pragmatics
description: No lie, what was Harisarman's whole deal in the village? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1832 «Ocean of Story, Gangazara and Harisarman, part 16: Gangazara is revived, the king repents, and Harisarman gets a magic name» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Test 12 · ★ · Ocean of Story, Gangazara and Harisarman, part 16: Gangaza…

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No lie, what was Harisarman's whole deal in the village?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lie · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** whole deal, village

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1832 «Ocean of Story, Gangazara and Harisarman, part 16: Gangazara is revived, the king repents, and Harisarman gets a magic name» 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/1832-pg7128-part16/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1832-pg7128-part16:t12:1
# text = No lie, what was Harisarman's whole deal in the village?
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	Harisarman	Harisarman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | no lie and Harisarman's whole deal | Harisarman's whole deal |  | the village |  |  | tree rules |

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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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a fool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1832-pg7128-part16:t12:o1:1
# text = a fool
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a rich merchant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1832-pg7128-part16:t12:o2:1
# text = a rich merchant
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	merchant	merchant	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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a wandering holy monk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1832-pg7128-part16:t12:o3:1
# text = a wandering holy monk
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
3	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a poor, foolish Brahman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1832-pg7128-part16:t12:o4:1
# text = a poor, foolish Brahman
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Brahman	Brahman	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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