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title: Proper random, but what was Marzavan's big skill? — Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper random, but what was Marzavan's big skill? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 200 «Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and Princess Badoura, part 40: Marzavan's ship sinks near the palace, and he gives the sick prince new hope» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and Princess Badoura,…

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Proper random, but what was Marzavan's big skill?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** random big skill

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 200 «Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and Princess Badoura, part 40: Marzavan's ship sinks near the palace, and he gives the sick prince new hope» 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/200-pg128-part40/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:200-pg128-part40:t7:1
# text = Proper random, but what was Marzavan's big skill?
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	random	random	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	Marzavan	Marzavan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Marzavan's random big skill |  |  |  |  | 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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Astrology, reading the stars and planets across every land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:200-pg128-part40:t7:o1:1
# text = Astrology, reading the stars and planets across every land
1	Astrology	astrology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	planets	planet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | gerund |  | the stars and planets |  | every land |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Topic |

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

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Astrology, the stars stuff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:200-pg128-part40:t7:o2:1
# text = Astrology, the stars stuff
1	Astrology	astrology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Healing the sick with herbs and the art of the physician

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:200-pg128-part40:t7:o3:1
# text = Healing the sick with herbs and the art of the physician
1	Healing	heal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heal** | gerund |  | the sick |  |  |  | with herbs and the art of the physician | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sick=Patient with herb=Instrument |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Medicine, like herbs stuff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:200-pg128-part40:t7:o4:1
# text = Medicine, like herbs stuff
1	Medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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