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title: Which bit did the old woman do, sick? — Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the G… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which bit did the old woman do, sick? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1773 «Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the gazelle slays the seven-headed snake» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice wa
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# Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the…

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Which bit did the old woman do, sick?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bit, old woman · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** old woman

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1773 «Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the gazelle slays the seven-headed snake» 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/1773-pg641-part24/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t6:1
# text = Which bit did the old woman do, sick?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which bit | the old woman |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | present | the old woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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 {#o1}

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Took the gazelle to the palace garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t6:o1:1
# text = Took the gazelle to the palace garden
1	Took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past |  | the gazelle |  | the palace garden |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gazelle=Theme to garden=Destination |

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

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Fanned the gazelle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t6:o2:1
# text = Fanned the gazelle
1	Fanned	fan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fan** | participle |  | the gazelle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Sprinkled some scent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t6:o3:1
# text = Sprinkled some scent
1	Sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sprinkle** | participle |  | some scent |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent scent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sprinkled fresh scent all over herself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t6:o4:1
# text = Sprinkled fresh scent all over herself
1	Sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sprinkle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=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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