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title: Where was Baba from, like? — Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haro… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where was Baba from, like? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 214 «Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part 1: the Caliph is stopped by a blind beggar who begs to be struck» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part…

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Where was Baba from, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 214 «Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part 1: the Caliph is stopped by a blind beggar who begs to be struck» 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/214-pg128-part54/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:214-pg128-part54:t7:1
# text = Where was Baba from, like?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:214-pg128-part54:t7:o1:1
# text = Basra
1	Basra	Basra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Bagdad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:214-pg128-part54:t7:o2:1
# text = Bagdad
1	Bagdad	bagdad	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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Balsora

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:214-pg128-part54:t7:o3:1
# text = Balsora
1	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cairo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:214-pg128-part54:t7:o4:1
# text = Cairo
1	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	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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