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title: Yo, so the wife ate rice with a pin, like, for real? — Arabian Nights, The Man Who Became a D… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, so the wife ate rice with a pin, like, for real? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 217 «Arabian Nights, The Man Who Became a Dog, part 57: a secret midnight feast, a curse, and a dog in a cookshop» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Man Who Became a Dog, part 57: a secre…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yo, so the wife ate rice with a pin, like, for real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** rice

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 217 «Arabian Nights, The Man Who Became a Dog, part 57: a secret midnight feast, a curse, and a dog in a cookshop» 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/217-pg128-part57/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:217-pg128-part57:t1:1
# text = Yo, so the wife ate rice with a pin, like, for real?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | the wife | rice |  |  |  | with a pin | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a long pin, grain by grain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:217-pg128-part57:t1:o1:1
# text = Yeah, a long pin, grain by grain
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, with a fork, all at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:217-pg128-part57:t1:o2:1
# text = Yeah, with a fork, all at once
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, she used this long pin and ate every single grain of rice one at a time, super slow

<!-- fold The tree, 19 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:217-pg128-part57:t1:o3:1
# text = Yeah, she used this long pin and ate every single grain of rice one at a time, super slow
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
11	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	super	super	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | she | this long pin |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | past | she *not said here* | every single grain of rice |  |  | time |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, not a pin at all, she scooped it with bread from the cooking pot like everyone else

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:217-pg128-part57:t1:o4:1
# text = Nah, not a pin at all, she scooped it with bread from the cooking pot like everyone else
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	scooped	scoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	nmod	_	_
20	else	else	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scoop** | past | she | pin |  | the cooking pot like everyone |  | with bread | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme from pot=Trajectory |

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