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title: yo, did Abu Nowas really rub pepper in his eyes just to fake crying? — Eastern Tales, Abu Nowas, part 47: Abu… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo, did Abu Nowas really rub pepper in his eyes just to fake crying? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 707 «Eastern Tales, Abu Nowas, part 47: Abu Nowas fakes his wife's death and tricks the Sultan out of gold» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Eastern Tales, Abu Nowas, part 47: Abu Nowas fakes his wif…

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yo, did Abu Nowas really rub pepper in his eyes just to fake crying?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Abu · **What happens:** do, rub, fake, cry · **To what, where:** pepper, eyes

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 707 «Eastern Tales, Abu Nowas, part 47: Abu Nowas fakes his wife's death and tricks the Sultan out of gold» 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/707-pg2435-part47/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:707-pg2435-part47:t1:1
# text = yo, did Abu Nowas really rub pepper in his eyes just to fake crying?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Abu	Abu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	rub	rub	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	fake	fake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rub** | present | Abu | pepper |  | Abu's eyes |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pepper=Theme in eye=Destination |
| 3 | **fake** | to-infinitive | Abu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Abu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, proper sneaky, to fool the Sultan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:707-pg2435-part47:t1:o1:1
# text = yeah, proper sneaky, to fool the Sultan
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fool	fool	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fool** | to-infinitive |  | the Sultan |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, sneaky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:707-pg2435-part47:t1:o2:1
# text = yeah, sneaky
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, he was genuinely upset about his wife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:707-pg2435-part47:t1:o3:1
# text = nah, he was genuinely upset about his wife
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	genuinely	genuinely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | about his wife; genuinely, upset *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, just onion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:707-pg2435-part47:t1:o4:1
# text = nah, just onion
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	onion	onion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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