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title: real talk, what does the dervish say the Talking Bird is in — Arabian Nights, Princess Parizade, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: real talk, what does the dervish say the Talking Bird is in Test 12 · ★ of lesson 229 «Arabian Nights, Princess Parizade, part 69: Prince Bahman turns to black stone on the mountain» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Princess Parizade, part 69: Prince Bahman…

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real talk, what does the dervish say the Talking Bird is in

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, say · **To what, where:** dervish, real talk · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 229 «Arabian Nights, Princess Parizade, part 69: Prince Bahman turns to black stone on the mountain» 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/229-pg128-part69/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:229-pg128-part69:t12:1
# text = real talk, what does the dervish say the Talking Bird is in
1	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Talking	Talking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the dervish |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dervish=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | real talk |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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a splendid cage high on the mountain top

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:229-pg128-part69:t12:o1:1
# text = a splendid cage high on the mountain top
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a gilded tower

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:229-pg128-part69:t12:o2:1
# text = a gilded tower
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gild** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a splendid cage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:229-pg128-part69:t12:o3:1
# text = a splendid cage
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a magic cage made of gold and singing stones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:229-pg128-part69:t12:o4:1
# text = a magic cage made of gold and singing stones
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
9	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | a magic cage *not said here* |  |  |  | of gold | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  | stones |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stone=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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