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title: proper harsh, but how many brides did he marry each night? — Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: proper harsh, but how many brides did he marry each night? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 161 «Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl offers herself to the sultan» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl off…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
proper harsh, but how many brides did he marry each night?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many brides · **What happens:** marry

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 161 «Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl offers herself to the sultan» 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/161-pg128-part1/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:t3:1
# text = proper harsh, but how many brides did he marry each night?
1	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	brides	bride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past · do-support | many brides |  |  |  | night |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
one new bride every single evening, and then he had her killed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:t3:o1:1
# text = one new bride every single evening, and then he had her killed
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	killed	kill	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 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive |  | one new bride |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
one new bride every single evening

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:t3:o2:1
# text = one new bride every single evening
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a fresh bride each evening, yeah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:t3:o3:1
# text = a fresh bride each evening, yeah
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
one new bride every single evening, which was proper harsh for her family

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:t3:o4:1
# text = one new bride every single evening, which was proper harsh for her family
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | every single evening |  |  |  |  | for bride's family; harsh, properly *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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