--- title: Was the crowd cheering or mocking him? — Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 52: the… · tree and pragmatics description: Was the crowd cheering or mocking him? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 212 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 52: the magician tricks the princess into giving up the lamp, and the palace vanishes to Africa» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/212-pg128-part52/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 52: the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/212-pg128-part52/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 52: the magician tricks the… Was the crowd cheering or mocking him? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** crowd · **What happens:** be, cheer, mock · **To what, where:** crowd, him This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 212 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 52: the magician tricks the princess into giving up the lamp, and the palace vanishes to Africa» 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/212-pg128-part52/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:212-pg128-part52:t10:1 # text = Was the crowd cheering or mocking him? 1 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 cheering cheer VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 mocking mock VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the crowd | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cheer** | gerund | the crowd *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **mock** | gerund | the crowd *not said here* | him *= he* | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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} Laughing at him ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:212-pg128-part52:t10:o1:1 # text = Laughing at him 1 Laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | | | at him *= he* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Mocking him ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:212-pg128-part52:t10:o2:1 # text = Mocking him 1 Mocking mock VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mock** | gerund | | him *= he* | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Ignoring him ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:212-pg128-part52:t10:o3:1 # text = Ignoring him 1 Ignoring ignore VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ignore** | gerund | | him *= he* | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Cheering ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:212-pg128-part52:t10:o4:1 # text = Cheering 1 Cheering cheer VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cheer** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | **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. 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