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title: What did the prince spot, all asleep? — Arabian Nights, The Story of the Encha… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the prince spot, all asleep? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 223 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Enchanted Horse, part 63: the prince tells his flight and dines with the princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Enchanted Horse, part 63:…

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What did the prince spot, all asleep?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** prince spot

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 223 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Enchanted Horse, part 63: the prince tells his flight and dines with the princess» 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/223-pg128-part63/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:223-pg128-part63:t11:1
# text = What did the prince spot, all asleep?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the prince spot |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Eventuality |

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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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Eunuchs snoring on the floor of the hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:223-pg128-part63:t11:o1:1
# text = Eunuchs snoring on the floor of the hall
1	Eunuchs	eunuch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	snoring	snore	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snore** | gerund | Eunuchs *not said here* |  |  | the floor of the hall |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Eunuchs snoring on the floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:223-pg128-part63:t11:o2:1
# text = Eunuchs snoring on the floor
1	Eunuchs	eunuch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	snoring	snore	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snore** | gerund | Eunuchs *not said here* |  |  | the floor |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Maids gossiping by the fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:223-pg128-part63:t11:o3:1
# text = Maids gossiping by the fire
1	Maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	gossiping	gossip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gossip** *speech: other* | gerund | Maids *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the fire | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Servants dozing in the hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:223-pg128-part63:t11:o4:1
# text = Servants dozing in the hall
1	Servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	dozing	doze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **doze** | gerund | Servants *not said here* |  |  | the hall |  |  | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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