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title: Innit, what was the Sultan's fave dish, proper? — Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Innit, what was the Sultan's fave dish, proper? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 233 «Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water: the Sultan meets his children and his wife comes home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

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Innit, what was the Sultan's fave dish, proper?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Innit · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fave dish

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 233 «Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water: the Sultan meets his children and his wife comes home» 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/233-pg128-part73/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t1:1
# text = Innit, what was the Sultan's fave dish, proper?
1	Innit	Innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	fave	fave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Innit | the Sultan's fave dish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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figs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t1:o1:1
# text = figs
1	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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honey cakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t1:o2:1
# text = honey cakes
1	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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roast lamb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t1:o3:1
# text = roast lamb
1	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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cucumber

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t1:o4:1
# text = cucumber
1	cucumber	cucumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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