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title: Is the garden a total mess, or is it nice, mate? — Arabian Nights, The Prince and Mihr-af… · tree and pragmatics
description: Is the garden a total mess, or is it nice, mate? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1202 «Arabian Nights, The Prince and Mihr-afruz's Riddle, part 3: the prince enters the garden and is taken for a madman» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Prince and Mihr-afruz's Riddle, part 3…

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Is the garden a total mess, or is it nice, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mess · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** garden

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1202 «Arabian Nights, The Prince and Mihr-afruz's Riddle, part 3: the prince enters the garden and is taken for a madman» 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/1202-pg3282-part3/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1202-pg3282-part3:t12:1
# text = Is the garden a total mess, or is it nice, mate?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	csubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the garden |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | mess |  |  |  |  | mate *vocative*; nice *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}

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It is a lovely garden, full of birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1202-pg3282-part3:t12:o1:1
# text = It is a lovely garden, full of birds
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a lovely garden |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It is so nice, like a paradise with birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1202-pg3282-part3:t12:o2:1
# text = It is so nice, like a paradise with birds
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	paradise	paradise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | like a paradise with birds; nice *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It is a quiet, pretty garden here

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1202-pg3282-part3:t12:o3:1
# text = It is a quiet, pretty garden here
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a quiet pretty garden |  | here |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It is nice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1202-pg3282-part3:t12:o4:1
# text = It is nice
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | tree rules |

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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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