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title: Who was the rich geezer in Bagdad? — Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was the rich geezer in Bagdad? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1877 «Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood, saved by the Fairy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood…

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Who was the rich geezer in Bagdad?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** rich geezer, Bagdad

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1877 «Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood, saved by the Fairy» 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/1877-pg7277-part14/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1877-pg7277-part14:t8:1
# text = Who was the rich geezer in Bagdad?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	geezer	geezer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the rich geezer |  | Bagdad |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Badi-al-Zaman, the wealthy one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1877-pg7277-part14:t8:o1:1
# text = Badi-al-Zaman, the wealthy one
1	Badi	Badi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Zaman	Zaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Badi-al-Zaman, the merchant lord

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1877-pg7277-part14:t8:o2:1
# text = Badi-al-Zaman, the merchant lord
1	Badi	Badi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Zaman	Zaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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the old lord of the town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1877-pg7277-part14:t8:o3:1
# text = the old lord of the town
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hassan, the wealthy one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1877-pg7277-part14:t8:o4:1
# text = Hassan, the wealthy one
1	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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