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title: Where's the Sultana been stuck all them years, like? — Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where's the Sultana been stuck all them years, like? Test 7 · ★ 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 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

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Where's the Sultana been stuck all them years, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** all · **What happens:** stick, year · **To what, where:** Sultana

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t7:1
# text = Where's the Sultana been stuck all them years, like?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Sultana	Sultana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick** | present · passive |  | the Sultana |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **year** |  | all |  |  |  |  |  | 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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a narrow prison beneath the mosque walls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t7:o1:1
# text = a narrow prison beneath the mosque walls
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	mosque	mosque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a stone cell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t7:o2:1
# text = a stone cell
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cell	cell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a cold dark dungeon at the edge of the city

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t7:o3:1
# text = a cold dark dungeon at the edge of the city
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a narrow prison

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t7:o4:1
# text = a narrow prison
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	prison	prison	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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