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title: Yo, so the prince wanted to fight who, like, for real? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, so the prince wanted to fight who, like, for real? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1020 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud prince is beaten by a gnat; a wicked queen plots against Eliza» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud…

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Yo, so the prince wanted to fight who, like, for real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** want, fight

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1020 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud prince is beaten by a gnat; a wicked queen plots against Eliza» 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/1020-pg27200-part231/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t1:1
# text = Yo, so the prince wanted to fight who, like, for real?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **fight** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent who=Co-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 {#o1}

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The sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t1:o1:1
# text = The sea
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The archangel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t1:o2:1
# text = The archangel
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	archangel	archangel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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God himself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t1:o3:1
# text = God himself
1	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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A giant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t1:o4:1
# text = A giant
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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