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title: Yo, how did the sisters end up, proper? — Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, how did the sisters end up, proper? Test 6 · ★ 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 question and 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

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Yo, how did the sisters end up, proper?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sisters · **What happens:** do, end up

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t6:1
# text = Yo, how did the sisters end up, proper?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **end up** | present | the sisters |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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executed in under an hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t6:o1:1
# text = executed in under an hour
1	executed	execute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **execute** | participle |  |  |  |  | hour |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
pardoned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t6:o2:1
# text = pardoned
1	pardoned	pardon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pardon** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
sold as slaves abroad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t6:o3:1
# text = sold as slaves abroad
1	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as slaves; abroad *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
banished to the desert

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t6:o4:1
# text = banished to the desert
1	banished	banish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **banish** | participle |  |  |  | the desert |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to desert=Destination |

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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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