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title: Yo, what did Zobeida say the guests should not ask? — Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what did Zobeida say the guests should not ask? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 170 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10: three shaven Calenders come to the ladies' house, and the mystery of the dogs and the scars begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depende
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# Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10:…

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Yo, what did Zobeida say the guests should not ask?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Zobeida, guests · **What happens:** say, not ask · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 170 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10: three shaven Calenders come to the ladies' house, and the mystery of the dogs and the scars begins» 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/170-pg128-part10/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t10:1
# text = Yo, what did Zobeida say the guests should not ask?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Zobeida |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | should | the guests |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Questions about strange things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t10:o1:1
# text = Questions about strange things
1	Questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Questions about their wine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t10:o2:1
# text = Questions about their wine
1	Questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Questions about the dogs and the lute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t10:o3:1
# text = Questions about the dogs and the lute
1	Questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lute	lute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Any questions at all about the ladies' secrets and history

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t10:o4:1
# text = Any questions at all about the ladies' secrets and history
1	Any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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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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