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title: Did the merchants reckon the olives were fresh or manky? — Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia and the Oliv… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the merchants reckon the olives were fresh or manky? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 221 «Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia and the Olives, part 61: a child judges a thief, then a magic horse appears» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia and the Olives, part 61: a child…

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Did the merchants reckon the olives were fresh or manky?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** merchants, olives · **What happens:** reckon, be

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 221 «Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia and the Olives, part 61: a child judges a thief, then a magic horse appears» 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/221-pg128-part61/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:221-pg128-part61:t3:1
# text = Did the merchants reckon the olives were fresh or manky?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	olives	olive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	manky	manky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | the merchants |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the olives |  |  |  |  | fresh *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the olives *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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Rotten and well past it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:221-pg128-part61:t3:o1:1
# text = Rotten and well past it
1	Rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	past	past	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

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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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Fresh and proper good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:221-pg128-part61:t3:o2:1
# text = Fresh and proper good
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Off and mouldy, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:221-pg128-part61:t3:o3:1
# text = Off and mouldy, mate
1	Off	off	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	mouldy	mouldy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fresh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:221-pg128-part61:t3:o4:1
# text = Fresh
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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