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title: Mate, what did the meat man come back with? — Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 58:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did the meat man come back with? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 218 «Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 58: a dog spots fake coins and is freed by a magician's daughter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 58: a dog spots fake coi…

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Mate, what did the meat man come back with?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** come back · **To what, where:** Mate

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 218 «Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 58: a dog spots fake coins and is freed by a magician's daughter» 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/218-pg128-part58/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:218-pg128-part58:t2:1
# text = Mate, what did the meat man come back with?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past · do-support |  | Mate |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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}

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Sheep heads, tongues and trotters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:218-pg128-part58:t2:o1:1
# text = Sheep heads, tongues and trotters
1	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	trotters	trotter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sheep heads, tongues, trotters and a big bag of offal from the market

<!-- fold The tree, 13 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:218-pg128-part58:t2:o2:1
# text = Sheep heads, tongues, trotters and a big bag of offal from the market
1	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	trotters	trotter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	offal	offal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Beef bones and kidneys too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:218-pg128-part58:t2:o3:1
# text = Beef bones and kidneys too
1	Beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	kidneys	kidney	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Lamb shanks, sheep heads, tongues and trotters plus a whole box of tripe

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:218-pg128-part58:t2:o4:1
# text = Lamb shanks, sheep heads, tongues and trotters plus a whole box of tripe
1	Lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	shanks	shank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	trotters	trotter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
10	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	tripe	tripe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
```

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

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