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title: Mate, who even grabbed the Caliph's wing to stop him? — Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, who even grabbed the Caliph's wing to stop him? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1873 «Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story, the magic word, and the Caliph's new life» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 1 · ★ · Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story,…

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Mate, who even grabbed the Caliph's wing to stop him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** grab, stop · **To what, where:** wing, him

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1873 «Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story, the magic word, and the Caliph's new life» 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/1873-pg7277-part10/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1873-pg7277-part10:t1:1
# text = Mate, who even grabbed the Caliph's wing to stop him?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | past |  | the Caliph's wing |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality |

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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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The Vizier, obviously, who was too scared to let him go

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1873-pg7277-part10:t1:o1:1
# text = The Vizier, obviously, who was too scared to let him go
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Vizier |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | the Vizier *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | him *= he* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Vizier, obviously, with his bill clamped on the wing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1873-pg7277-part10:t1:o2:1
# text = The Vizier, obviously, with his bill clamped on the wing
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	clamped	clamp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clamp** | past | the Vizier with Vizier's bill |  |  |  |  | on the wing | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on wing=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **bill** |  | Vizier |  |  |  |  |  | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Vizier, obviously

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1873-pg7277-part10:t1:o3:1
# text = The Vizier, obviously
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The guard, I reckon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1873-pg7277-part10:t1:o4:1
# text = The guard, I reckon
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | the guard |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: 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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