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title: Innit true the king wanted the story written in gold? — Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Innit true the king wanted the story written in gold? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 189 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 29: Sindbad floats out of a dark underground river and is welcomed in Serendib» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 29: Sindbad float…

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Innit true the king wanted the story written in gold?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** true king · **What happens:** want, write · **To what, where:** story, gold

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 189 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 29: Sindbad floats out of a dark underground river and is welcomed in Serendib» 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/189-pg128-part29/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:189-pg128-part29:t6:1
# text = Innit true the king wanted the story written in gold?
1	Innit	Innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wanted	want	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	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the true king | the story |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot story=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  | the story *not said here* |  | gold |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in gold=Destination |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, written in red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:189-pg128-part29:t6:o1:1
# text = Yeah, written in red
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | participle |  |  |  | red |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in red=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, in silver letters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:189-pg128-part29:t6:o2:1
# text = Yeah, in silver letters
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, letters of gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:189-pg128-part29:t6:o3:1
# text = Yeah, letters of gold
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **letter** |  |  | gold |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he wanted the tale carved in stone on the temple walls of the city

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:189-pg128-part29:t6:o4:1
# text = Nah, he wanted the tale carved in stone on the temple walls of the city
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | he | the tale |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tale=Theme |
| 2 | **carve** | participle |  | the tale *not said here* |  | stone |  | on the temple walls of the city | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in stone=Destination |

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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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