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title: Mate, what's Amina's neck look like after she sings? — Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what's Amina's neck look like after she sings? Test 7 · ★ 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 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10:…

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Mate, what's Amina's neck look like after she sings?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate, Amina · **What happens:** be, look, sing · **To what, where:** neck

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t7:1
# text = Mate, what's Amina's neck look like after she sings?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	Amina	Amina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mate and Amina's neck | Amina's neck |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | Mate and Amina's neck |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | Amina |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=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 {#o1}

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Covered in tiny jewels and gold rings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t7:o1:1
# text = Covered in tiny jewels and gold rings
1	Covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | in tiny jewels and gold rings | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in jewel=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Stained with wine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t7:o2:1
# text = Stained with wine
1	Stained	stain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with wine | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wine=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Covered in scars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t7:o3:1
# text = Covered in scars
1	Covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	scars	scar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | in scars | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in scar=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bright red as if she had been burned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t7:o4:1
# text = Bright red as if she had been burned
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | past · perfect · passive |  | she |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

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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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