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title: Was the rock thing like a proper magic door or what? — Arabian Nights, The Dervish and the Tr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the rock thing like a proper magic door or what? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 215 «Arabian Nights, The Dervish and the Treasure, part 55: the greedy narrator takes more camels and begs for the magic ointment» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Dervish and the Treasure, part 55: the…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Was the rock thing like a proper magic door or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** rock thing

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 215 «Arabian Nights, The Dervish and the Treasure, part 55: the greedy narrator takes more camels and begs for the magic ointment» 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/215-pg128-part55/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:215-pg128-part55:t7:1
# text = Was the rock thing like a proper magic door or what?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the rock thing |  |  |  | like a proper magic door  the rock thing | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it opened with smoke and a huge palace full of gold and jewels and rugs

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:215-pg128-part55:t7:o1:1
# text = Yeah, it opened with smoke and a huge palace full of gold and jewels and rugs
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	rugs	rug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | it |  |  |  |  | with smoke and a huge palace | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it opened with smoke and a palace inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:215-pg128-part55:t7:o2:1
# text = Yeah, it opened with smoke and a palace inside
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | it |  |  |  |  | with smoke and a palace | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it opened with a huge cloud of smoke and a vast palace with a thousand rooms

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:215-pg128-part55:t7:o3:1
# text = Yeah, it opened with a huge cloud of smoke and a vast palace with a thousand rooms
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | it |  |  |  |  | with a huge cloud of smoke and a vast palace with thousand rooms | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cloud** |  |  | smoke |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it opened with a bang and gold inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:215-pg128-part55:t7:o4:1
# text = Yeah, it opened with a bang and gold inside
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | it |  |  |  |  | with a bang and gold; inside *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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