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title: Why was she acting loco anyway? — Arabian Nights, Prince Firouz Schah: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why was she acting loco anyway? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 226 «Arabian Nights, Prince Firouz Schah: the prince wins back the princess and tricks the Sultan» 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 was right.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Firouz Schah: the prince wins back…

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Why was she acting loco anyway?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** act · **To what, where:** loco

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 226 «Arabian Nights, Prince Firouz Schah: the prince wins back the princess and tricks the Sultan» 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/226-pg128-part66/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:226-pg128-part66:t3:1
# text = Why was she acting loco anyway?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	acting	act	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	loco	loco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **act** | past · progressive | she | loco |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent loco=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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To dodge marrying the Sultan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:226-pg128-part66:t3:o1:1
# text = To dodge marrying the Sultan
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	dodge	dodge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	marrying	marry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dodge** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **marry** | gerund |  | the Sultan |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To avoid the Persian prince

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:226-pg128-part66:t3:o2:1
# text = To avoid the Persian prince
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avoid** | to-infinitive |  | the Persian prince |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent prince=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To dodge a fight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:226-pg128-part66:t3:o3:1
# text = To dodge a fight
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	dodge	dodge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dodge** | to-infinitive |  | a fight |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent fight=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To escape the old king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:226-pg128-part66:t3:o4:1
# text = To escape the old king
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	escape	escape	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | to-infinitive |  | the old king |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme king=Initial\_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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