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title: Sick, what was the Sultan gonna bring the kids tomorrow? — Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sick, what was the Sultan gonna bring the kids tomorrow? Test 8 · ★ 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 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

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Sick, what was the Sultan gonna bring the kids tomorrow?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Sultan · **What happens:** sick, be

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t8:1
# text = Sick, what was the Sultan gonna bring the kids tomorrow?
1	Sick	sick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	dep	_	_
8	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sick** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Sultan |  |  |  | tomorrow | bring *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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the Sultana, their mother, freed at last

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t8:o1:1
# text = the Sultana, their mother, freed at last
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sultana	Sultana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	freed	free	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **free** | participle |  | their mother *not said here* |  | last |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t8:o2:1
# text = the princess
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the Sultana

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t8:o3:1
# text = the Sultana
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sultana	Sultana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t8:o4:1
# text = the bird
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	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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