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title: Bare people laughed when the Indian asked for the princess, yeah? — Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bare people laughed when the Indian asked for the princess, yeah? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 222 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince flies away and lands in a princess's palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince fli…

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Bare people laughed when the Indian asked for the princess, yeah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bare people, Indian · **What happens:** laugh, ask

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 222 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince flies away and lands in a princess's palace» 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/222-pg128-part62/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t3:1
# text = Bare people laughed when the Indian asked for the princess, yeah?
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
7	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | Bare people |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Indian |  |  |  |  | for the princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Nah, nobody did

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t3:o1:1
# text = Nah, nobody did
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yeah, the lot of them giggled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t3:o2:1
# text = Yeah, the lot of them giggled
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	giggled	giggle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **giggle** | participle |  | the lot of them *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, the courtiers cracked up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t3:o3:1
# text = Yeah, the courtiers cracked up
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cracked	crack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crack up** | past | the courtiers |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yeah, the guards all grinned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t3:o4:1
# text = Yeah, the guards all grinned
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	grinned	grin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grin** | past | the guards |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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