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title: how did the town feel about all the weddings? — Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: how did the town feel about all the weddings? Test 8 · ★ 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 was rig
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl off…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
how did the town feel about all the weddings?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** town · **What happens:** feel

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:t8:1
# text = how did the town feel about all the weddings?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	weddings	wedding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past · do-support | the town |  |  |  |  | about all weddings | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about wedding=Location |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
total misery, loads of crying and curses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:t8:o1:1
# text = total misery, loads of crying and curses
1	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	curses	curse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | loads *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
loads of crying and cursing going on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:t8:o2:1
# text = loads of crying and cursing going on
1	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	cursing	curse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | loads |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **curse** | gerund | loads *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go on** | gerund | loads *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
total misery, loads of crying and curses, and they hated the sultan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:t8:o3:1
# text = total misery, loads of crying and curses, and they hated the sultan
1	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	curses	curse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | loads *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hate** | past | total misery | the sultan |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sultan=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
total misery, loads of crying, curses and people fleeing the town in fear

<!-- fold The tree, 13 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:161-pg128-part1:t8:o4:1
# text = total misery, loads of crying, curses and people fleeing the town in fear
1	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	curses	curse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	fleeing	flee	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | loads *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **flee** | gerund | people *not said here* | the town |  | fear |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Initial\_Location |

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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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