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title: the princess said she was gonna die from what? — Arabian Nights, The Story of the Secon… · tree and pragmatics
description: the princess said she was gonna die from what? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 177 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17: the genius is burned, and the third Calender begins his tale» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17:…

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the princess said she was gonna die from what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 177 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17: the genius is burned, and the third Calender begins his tale» 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/177-pg128-part17/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:177-pg128-part17:t10:1
# text = the princess said she was gonna die from what?
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	_
7	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | princess |  |  |  |  | die *property* | tree rules |

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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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a curse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:177-pg128-part17:t10:o1:1
# text = a curse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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fire in her heart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:177-pg128-part17:t10:o2:1
# text = fire in her heart
1	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	heart	heart	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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a sickness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:177-pg128-part17:t10:o3:1
# text = a sickness
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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a broken heart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:177-pg128-part17:t10:o4:1
# text = a broken heart
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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