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title: Okay but who is the rich old man on the sofa? — Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Okay but who is the rich old man on the sofa? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 195 «Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar takes revenge, then is robbed and banished; Schacabac meets a Barmecide» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar…

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Okay but who is the rich old man on the sofa?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** rich old man, sofa

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 195 «Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar takes revenge, then is robbed and banished; Schacabac meets a Barmecide» 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/195-pg128-part35/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:195-pg128-part35:t9:1
# text = Okay but who is the rich old man on the sofa?
1	Okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the rich old man |  | the sofa |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the caliph himself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:195-pg128-part35:t9:o1:1
# text = the caliph himself
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	caliph	caliph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a Barmecide, obvi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:195-pg128-part35:t9:o2:1
# text = a Barmecide, obvi
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Barmecide	barmecide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	obvi	obvi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	dep	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a rich merchant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:195-pg128-part35:t9:o3:1
# text = a rich merchant
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a prince

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:195-pg128-part35:t9:o4:1
# text = a prince
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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