--- title: Lol, what was her big excuse for looking a bit rough? — Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Lol, what was her big excuse for looking a bit rough? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 206 «Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a slave for the king, and his son falls for her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/206-pg128-part46/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/206-pg128-part46/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a s… Lol, what was her big excuse for looking a bit rough? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** big excuse · **What happens:** be, look · **To what, where:** big excuse This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 206 «Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a slave for the king, and his son falls for her» 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/206-pg128-part46/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t6:1 # text = Lol, what was her big excuse for looking a bit rough? 1 Lol lol INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 excuse excuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 for for SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | her big excuse | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | gerund | her big excuse *not said here* | | | | | rough *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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} The bumpy road trip ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t6:o1:1 # text = The bumpy road trip 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 bumpy bumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Bad sleep ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t6:o2:1 # text = Bad sleep 1 Bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The long journey ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t6:o3:1 # text = The long journey 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Her long camel ride ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t6:o4:1 # text = Her long camel ride 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 camel camel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 ride ride NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ride** | | Her *= she* | | | | | | nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent | **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. 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