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title: Who was this bloke claiming to be his uncle? — Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was this bloke claiming to be his uncle? Test 9 · ★ 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 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the Fair Persian: Saouy'…

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Who was this bloke claiming to be his uncle?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** uncle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:210-pg128-part50:t9:1
# text = Who was this bloke claiming to be his uncle?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	claiming	claim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  | claim *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | his uncle |  |  |  |  | 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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a merchant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:210-pg128-part50:t9:o1:1
# text = a merchant
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	merchant	merchant	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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an old Moorish trader

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:210-pg128-part50:t9:o2:1
# text = an old Moorish trader
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Moorish	moorish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	trader	trader	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 stranger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:210-pg128-part50:t9:o3:1
# text = a stranger
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	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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a famous African magician

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:210-pg128-part50:t9:o4:1
# text = a famous African magician
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	magician	magician	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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