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title: So who was she actually bought for, like the top boss? — Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: So who was she actually bought for, like the top boss? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 206 «Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a slave for the king, and his son falls for her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a s…

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So who was she actually bought for, like the top boss?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 206 «Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a slave for the king, and his son falls for her» 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/206-pg128-part46/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t4:1
# text = So who was she actually bought for, like the top boss?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | actually, buy *property* | 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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Noureddin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t4:o1:1
# text = Noureddin
1	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Dad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t4:o2:1
# text = Dad
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Saouy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t4:o3:1
# text = Saouy
1	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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The king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t4:o4:1
# text = The king
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	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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