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title: lowkey, did the cop just let the merchant walk? — Arabian Nights, The Story of the Hunch… · tree and pragmatics
description: lowkey, did the cop just let the merchant walk? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 192 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Hunchback, part 32: a dead hunchback is passed from house to house, and three innocent men nearly hang» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Hunchback, part 32: a dea…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
lowkey, did the cop just let the merchant walk?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lowkey, merchant · **What happens:** let, walk · **To what, where:** merchant

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 192 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Hunchback, part 32: a dead hunchback is passed from house to house, and three innocent men nearly hang» 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/192-pg128-part32/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:192-pg128-part32:t5:1
# text = lowkey, did the cop just let the merchant walk?
1	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cop	cop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past · do-support | lowkey | the merchant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | infinitive | the merchant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, he sent him home with a warning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:192-pg128-part32:t5:o1:1
# text = yeah, he sent him home with a warning
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | he | him *= he* |  |  |  | with a warning; home *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yup, he let him walk home but made him promise never to drink wine again in the city

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:192-pg128-part32:t5:o2:1
# text = yup, he let him walk home but made him promise never to drink wine again in the city
1	yup	yup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | he | yup |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | infinitive | yup *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | he *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **promise** *speech: promise* | infinitive | him *= he* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **drink** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | him *= he* *not said here* | wine |  | the city | again |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, he kept him in a cell till morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:192-pg128-part32:t5:o3:1
# text = nah, he kept him in a cell till morning
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	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cell	cell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	till	till	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | he | him *= he* |  | a cell till morning |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in cell=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, he locked him up till the judge woke up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:192-pg128-part32:t5:o4:1
# text = nah, he locked him up till the judge woke up
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	locked	lock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock up** | past | he | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **wake up** | past | the judge |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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