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title: real talk, what did the Persian keep telling him to stop doing? — Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beau… · tree and pragmatics
description: real talk, what did the Persian keep telling him to stop doing? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 207 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part 47: Noureddin's friends desert him and the Persian is put up for sale» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part…

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real talk, what did the Persian keep telling him to stop doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Persian, real talk · **What happens:** keep, tell, stop, do · **To what, where:** real talk, Persian · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 207 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part 47: Noureddin's friends desert him and the Persian is put up for sale» 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/207-pg128-part47/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:207-pg128-part47:t7:1
# text = real talk, what did the Persian keep telling him to stop doing?
1	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past · do-support | the Persian | real talk |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | real talk *not said here* |  | Persian |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | real talk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **do** | gerund | real talk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Inviting all his friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:207-pg128-part47:t7:o1:1
# text = Inviting all his friends
1	Inviting	invite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** | gerund |  |  | his friends |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Throwing lavish parties and giving gifts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:207-pg128-part47:t7:o2:1
# text = Throwing lavish parties and giving gifts
1	Throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	lavish	lavish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
6	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | gerund |  | lavish parties |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | gerund |  | gifts |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Holding feasts and gambling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:207-pg128-part47:t7:o3:1
# text = Holding feasts and gambling
1	Holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	feasts	feast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	gambling	gambling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | gerund |  | feasts and gambling |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme |

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

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Throwing parties and spending

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:207-pg128-part47:t7:o4:1
# text = Throwing parties and spending
1	Throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	spending	spending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | gerund |  | parties and spending |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme |

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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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