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title: Who was the old lady who taught the princess? — Arabian Nights, The Monkey Who Could W… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was the old lady who taught the princess? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 176 «Arabian Nights, The Monkey Who Could Write, part 16: the monkey's handwriting wins the Sultan's favour, and the princess reveals his secret» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Monkey Who Could Write, part 16: the m…

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Who was the old lady who taught the princess?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old lady · **What happens:** be, teach · **To what, where:** old lady, princess

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 176 «Arabian Nights, The Monkey Who Could Write, part 16: the monkey's handwriting wins the Sultan's favour, and the princess reveals his secret» 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/176-pg128-part16/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:176-pg128-part16:t7:1
# text = Who was the old lady who taught the princess?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the old lady |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | the old lady |  | the princess |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient |

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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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a powerful magician from the far mountains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:176-pg128-part16:t7:o1:1
# text = a powerful magician from the far mountains
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a magician who lived in the palace gardens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:176-pg128-part16:t7:o2:1
# text = a magician who lived in the palace gardens
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | a magician |  |  | the palace gardens |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a magician, no joke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:176-pg128-part16:t7:o3:1
# text = a magician, no joke
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a travelling trader

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:176-pg128-part16:t7:o4:1
# text = a travelling trader
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	travelling	travelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	trader	trader	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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**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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