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title: Bro, what was the Indian's plan for getting back at the Sultan? — Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what was the Indian's plan for getting back at the Sultan? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 224 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince flies home, and the angry Indian plots revenge» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince f…

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Bro, what was the Indian's plan for getting back at the Sultan?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro, Indian plan · **What happens:** be, get back · **To what, where:** Indian plan, Sultan

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 224 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince flies home, and the angry Indian plots revenge» 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/224-pg128-part64/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:224-pg128-part64:t13:1
# text = Bro, what was the Indian's plan for getting back at the Sultan?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bro | the Indian plan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get back** | gerund | the Indian plan *not said here* |  |  | the Sultan |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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Kill the prince

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:224-pg128-part64:t13:o1:1
# text = Kill the prince
1	Kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | imperative | you *not said here* | the prince |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Snatch the princess away and take her back to India forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:224-pg128-part64:t13:o2:1
# text = Snatch the princess away and take her back to India forever
1	Snatch	snatch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snatch away** | imperative | you *not said here* | the princess |  |  |  | away *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | princess's back | India |  |  | forever *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent back=Theme to india=Destination |

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

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Snatch the princess away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:224-pg128-part64:t13:o3:1
# text = Snatch the princess away
1	Snatch	snatch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snatch away** | imperative | you *not said here* | the princess |  |  |  | away *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Burn the palace down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:224-pg128-part64:t13:o4:1
# text = Burn the palace down
1	Burn	burn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn down** | imperative | you *not said here* | the palace |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |

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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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