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title: Bro, what was the Caliph dude doing when the pedlar turned up? — Gutenberg 7277 tales, The Story of Cal… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what was the Caliph dude doing when the pedlar turned up? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1871 «Gutenberg 7277 tales, The Story of Caliph Stork, part 1: a pedlar sells the Caliph a scroll that the learned Selim finds is Latin» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Test 6 · ★ · Gutenberg 7277 tales, The Story of Caliph Stork, part 1: a…

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Bro, what was the Caliph dude doing when the pedlar turned up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bro, Caliph dude, pedlar · **What happens:** be, do, turn up · **To what, where:** Caliph dude

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1871 «Gutenberg 7277 tales, The Story of Caliph Stork, part 1: a pedlar sells the Caliph a scroll that the learned Selim finds is Latin» 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/1871-pg7277-part8/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1871-pg7277-part8:t6:1
# text = Bro, what was the Caliph dude doing when the pedlar turned up?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bro | the Caliph dude |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | the Caliph dude *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **turn up** | past | the pedlar |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Chilling on his divan with a pipe and coffee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1871-pg7277-part8:t6:o1:1
# text = Chilling on his divan with a pipe and coffee
1	Chilling	chill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	divan	divan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chill** | gerund |  |  |  | his divan |  | with a pipe and coffee | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with pipe=Instrument |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Dozing off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1871-pg7277-part8:t6:o2:1
# text = Dozing off
1	Dozing	doze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **doze off** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Counting coins at his desk in the palace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1871-pg7277-part8:t6:o3:1
# text = Counting coins at his desk in the palace
1	Counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	desk	desk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | gerund |  | coins |  | his desk |  | in the palace | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Shouting at his guards in the great hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1871-pg7277-part8:t6:o4:1
# text = Shouting at his guards in the great hall
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  | his guards |  | in the great hall | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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