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title: Which kid was the boss of the game, like the main one? — Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, part 60: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which kid was the boss of the game, like the main one? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 220 «Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, part 60: the Cadi's trial is replayed by children, and a clever boy spots the trick» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, part 60: the Cadi's trial is re…

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Which kid was the boss of the game, like the main one?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kid · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** boss

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 220 «Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, part 60: the Cadi's trial is replayed by children, and a clever boy spots the trick» 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/220-pg128-part60/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:220-pg128-part60:t6:1
# text = Which kid was the boss of the game, like the main one?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | which kid | the boss and the main one |  |  |  | of the game | 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 {#o1}

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the tallest boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:220-pg128-part60:t6:o1:1
# text = the tallest boy
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	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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the brightest and quickest boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:220-pg128-part60:t6:o2:1
# text = the brightest and quickest boy
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brightest	bright	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	quickest	quick	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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the one who bossed the others

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:220-pg128-part60:t6:o3:1
# text = the one who bossed the others
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bossed	boss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boss** | past | the one | the others |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the eldest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:220-pg128-part60:t6:o4:1
# text = the eldest
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	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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