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title: Wicked, what was well weird about that cucumber? — Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wicked, what was well weird about that cucumber? Test 2 · ★ 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 ques
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# Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

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Wicked, what was well weird about that cucumber?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t2:1
# text = Wicked, what was well weird about that cucumber?
1	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	cucumber	cucumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | about that cucumber; weird, well *property* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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full of pearls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t2:o1:1
# text = full of pearls
1	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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stuffed full of pearls and wicked magic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t2:o2:1
# text = stuffed full of pearls and wicked magic
1	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stuff** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | full *property* | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
crammed with tiny pearls and a secret note inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t2:o3:1
# text = crammed with tiny pearls and a secret note inside
1	crammed	cram	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cram** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with tiny pearls and a secret note | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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hollow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t2:o4:1
# text = hollow
1	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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