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title: what's a caravanserai, like a fancy shop or what? — Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 26:… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's a caravanserai, like a fancy shop or what? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 815 «Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 26: the oak is struck by lightning, and the Dryad hears of the Paris Exhibition and its doom» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 26: the oak is struck by…

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what's a caravanserai, like a fancy shop or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** caravanserai

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 815 «Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 26: the oak is struck by lightning, and the Dryad hears of the Paris Exhibition and its doom» 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/815-pg27200-part26/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:815-pg27200-part26:t9:1
# text = what's a caravanserai, like a fancy shop or what?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	caravanserai	caravanserai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a caravanserai |  |  |  |  | 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 fancy shop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:815-pg27200-part26:t9:o1:1
# text = a fancy shop
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a market in the desert town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:815-pg27200-part26:t9:o2:1
# text = a market in the desert town
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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a big inn in the East where travellers rested

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:815-pg27200-part26:t9:o3:1
# text = a big inn in the East where travellers rested
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
8	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | past | a big inn in the East |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a shop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:815-pg27200-part26:t9:o4:1
# text = a shop
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shop	shop	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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