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title: how'd Badoura keep everybody from noticing, lol? — Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: how'd Badoura keep everybody from noticing, lol? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 202 «Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman, part 42: a bird steals the talisman and Badoura takes her husband's place» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman, part 42: a bird steal…

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how'd Badoura keep everybody from noticing, lol?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Badoura · **What happens:** keep, notice · **To what, where:** everybody

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 202 «Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman, part 42: a bird steals the talisman and Badoura takes her husband's place» 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/202-pg128-part42/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:202-pg128-part42:t11:1
# text = how'd Badoura keep everybody from noticing, lol?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
3	Badoura	Badoura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | infinitive | Badoura | everybody |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everybody=Theme |
| 2 | **notice** | gerund | Badoura *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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she shut the palace gates

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:202-pg128-part42:t11:o1:1
# text = she shut the palace gates
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut** | past | she | the palace gates |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gate=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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she sent servants to search the city while claiming he was ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:202-pg128-part42:t11:o2:1
# text = she sent servants to search the city while claiming he was ill
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	claiming	claim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | she | servants |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme |
| 2 | **search** | to-infinitive | she *not said here* | the city |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent city=Location |
| 3 | **claim** *speech: other* | gerund | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |

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

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wore her husband's clothes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:202-pg128-part42:t11:o3:1
# text = wore her husband's clothes
1	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past |  | her husband's clothes |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
she told the court he slept

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:202-pg128-part42:t11:o4:1
# text = she told the court he slept
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | she |  | the court |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent court=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sleep** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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