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title: Who was snoring next to their swords? — Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was snoring next to their swords? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 222 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince flies away and lands in a princess's palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice
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# Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince fli…

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Who was snoring next to their swords?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** snore

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 222 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince flies away and lands in a princess's palace» 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/222-pg128-part62/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t10:1
# text = Who was snoring next to their swords?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	snoring	snore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snore** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t10:o1:1
# text = the king
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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servants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t10:o2:1
# text = servants
1	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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black guards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t10:o3:1
# text = black guards
1	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the court pages

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t10:o4:1
# text = the court pages
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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