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title: so who's Scheherazade then, like the main character? — Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: so who's Scheherazade then, like the main character? Test 4 · ★ 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 choice 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl off…

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so who's Scheherazade then, like the main character?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:t4:1
# text = so who's Scheherazade then, like the main character?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Scheherazade	Scheherazade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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the vizir's smart older daughter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:t4:o1:1
# text = the vizir's smart older daughter
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	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 -->
yeah, the grand-vizir's clever elder girl who tells the stories

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:t4:o2:1
# text = yeah, the grand-vizir's clever elder girl who tells the stories
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the grand vizir's clever elder girl | the stories |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the grand-vizir's clever elder girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:t4:o3:1
# text = the grand-vizir's clever elder girl
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	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 king's clever older girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:t4:o4:1
# text = the king's clever older girl
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	girl	girl	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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