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title: Was the king into smart girls or pretty girls? — Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the king into smart girls or pretty girls? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 205 «Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura: the princess reveals herself, and the prince is made king and married» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura: the princess rev…

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Was the king into smart girls or pretty girls?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** be

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 205 «Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura: the princess reveals herself, and the prince is made king and married» 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/205-pg128-part45/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:205-pg128-part45:t10:1
# text = Was the king into smart girls or pretty girls?
1	Was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | into smart girls or pretty girls | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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Pretty girls, mostly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:205-pg128-part45:t10:o1:1
# text = Pretty girls, mostly
1	Pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Smart and pretty both, and he loved wit above all things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:205-pg128-part45:t10:o2:1
# text = Smart and pretty both, and he loved wit above all things
1	Smart	Smart	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	wit	wit	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
10	above	above	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Smart |  |  | all things |  | wit *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |

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

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Smart and pretty both

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:205-pg128-part45:t10:o3:1
# text = Smart and pretty both
1	Smart	Smart	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
4	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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He liked smart and pretty girls and kept both kinds at court

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:205-pg128-part45:t10:o4:1
# text = He liked smart and pretty girls and kept both kinds at court
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | past | He | smart girls |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot girl=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | past | He *not said here* | both kinds |  | court |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent kind=Theme at court=Location |

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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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