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title: so Scheherazade thinks her death will be what, like just tragic? — Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the G… · tree and pragmatics
description: so Scheherazade thinks her death will be what, like just tragic? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 162 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheherazade wins more days by telling a tale of a merchant facing a fierce genie» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree a
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# Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheh…

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so Scheherazade thinks her death will be what, like just tragic?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Scheherazade, death · **What happens:** think, be, die · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 162 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheherazade wins more days by telling a tale of a merchant facing a fierce genie» 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/162-pg128-part2/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:162-pg128-part2:t12:1
# text = so Scheherazade thinks her death will be what, like just tragic?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Scheherazade	Scheherazade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	tragic	tragic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Scheherazade |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | future | Scheherazade's death |  |  |  |  | tragic *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** |  | Scheherazade |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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heroic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:162-pg128-part2:t12:o1:1
# text = heroic
1	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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dramatic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:162-pg128-part2:t12:o2:1
# text = dramatic
1	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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sad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:162-pg128-part2:t12:o3:1
# text = sad
1	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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glorious

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:162-pg128-part2:t12:o4:1
# text = glorious
1	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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