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# Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Princess Parizade, part 69: Prince Bahman…

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ngl the knife thing is wild, what did the blade look like when he got turned to stone

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ngl, blade · **What happens:** be, look, turn · **To what, where:** blade, stone

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:229-pg128-part69:t2:1
# text = ngl the knife thing is wild, what did the blade look like when he got turned to stone
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
13	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | ngl |  |  |  |  | wild *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | past · do-support | the blade |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **turn** | past · passive |  | blade |  | stone |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to stone=Trajectory |

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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 {#o1}

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it was all rust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:229-pg128-part69:t2:o1:1
# text = it was all rust
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	rust	rust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | all rust |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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it turned black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:229-pg128-part69:t2:o2:1
# text = it turned black
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | it |  |  |  |  | black *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it had blood on the tip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:229-pg128-part69:t2:o3:1
# text = it had blood on the tip
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | it | blood |  | the tip |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
covered in blood drops

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:229-pg128-part69:t2:o4:1
# text = covered in blood drops
1	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | in blood drops | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in drop=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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