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title: what did nobody hear, real talk? — Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230:… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did nobody hear, real talk? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1019 «Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks a wise woman for help, and a cruel prince wins riches by destroying other lands» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks…

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what did nobody hear, real talk?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nobody · **What happens:** hear · **To what, where:** real talk

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1019 «Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks a wise woman for help, and a cruel prince wins riches by destroying other lands» 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/1019-pg27200-part230/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:t11:1
# text = what did nobody hear, real talk?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · do-support | nobody | real talk |  |  |  |  | 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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the sighs and wails from the ruins of every village the prince had burned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:t11:o1:1
# text = the sighs and wails from the ruins of every village the prince had burned
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sighs	sigh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	wails	wail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | past · perfect · passive |  | the sighs from the ruins of every village and wails |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **ruin** |  |  | every village |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the sighs and wails from the ruins that the prince had left behind him on the road

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:t11:o2:1
# text = the sighs and wails from the ruins that the prince had left behind him on the road
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sighs	sigh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	wails	wail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | the ruins |  | the road |  | behind him *= he* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme behind he=Location |

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

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the sighs and wails from the ruins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:t11:o3:1
# text = the sighs and wails from the ruins
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sighs	sigh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	wails	wail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the church bells ringing loud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:t11:o4:1
# text = the church bells ringing loud
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	ringing	ring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | gerund | the church bells *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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