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title: What popped up when the ground opened? — Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What popped up when the ground opened? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 210 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the Fair Persian: Saouy's plot nearly kills Noureddin, but the vizir arrives in time» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the Fair Persian: Saouy'…

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What popped up when the ground opened?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** pop up, open · **To what, where:** ground

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 210 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the Fair Persian: Saouy's plot nearly kills Noureddin, but the vizir arrives in time» 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/210-pg128-part50/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:210-pg128-part50:t13:1
# text = What popped up when the ground opened?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	popped	pop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pop up** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | participle · passive |  | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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 {#o1}

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a brass ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:210-pg128-part50:t13:o1:1
# text = a brass ring
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	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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a square iron trapdoor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:210-pg128-part50:t13:o2:1
# text = a square iron trapdoor
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	trapdoor	trapdoor	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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a stone door with a copper knob

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:210-pg128-part50:t13:o3:1
# text = a stone door with a copper knob
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	knob	knob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a flat stone with a brass ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:210-pg128-part50:t13:o4:1
# text = a flat stone with a brass ring
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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