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title: what's the honey tale about then? — Eastern Tales, Abu Nowas, part 47: Abu… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's the honey tale about then? Test 10 · ★ 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 and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Eastern Tales, Abu Nowas, part 47: Abu Nowas fakes his wif…

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what's the honey tale about then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** honey tale · **What happens:** be

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This is test 10 · ★ 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:707-pg2435-part47:t10:1
# text = what's the honey tale about then?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the honey tale |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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a husband who gets honey for his poorly wife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:707-pg2435-part47:t10:o1:1
# text = a husband who gets honey for his poorly wife
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	poorly	poorly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | a husband | honey |  |  |  | for husband's wife | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent honey=Theme for wife=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a husband who goes into the forest for honey and his wife who turns it down because of the bees

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:707-pg2435-part47:t10:o2:1
# text = a husband who goes into the forest for honey and his wife who turns it down because of the bees
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
17	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | present | a husband |  |  | the forest |  | for honey and husband's wife; because the bees | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **turn** | present | husband's wife | forest |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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

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a sick wife who wants honey with dead bees in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:707-pg2435-part47:t10:o3:1
# text = a sick wife who wants honey with dead bees in
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want in** | present | a sick wife | honey |  |  |  | with dead bees | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot honey=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a wife who won't eat the honey they fetched

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:707-pg2435-part47:t10:o4:1
# text = a wife who won't eat the honey they fetched
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | future | a wife | the honey |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient |
| 2 | **fetch** | past | they | the honey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Theme |

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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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