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title: yo, the eldest princess was proper pretty but dead thick, innit — Perrault's Tales, Riquet with the Tuft… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo, the eldest princess was proper pretty but dead thick, innit Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1086 «Perrault's Tales, Riquet with the Tuft, part 11: the two princesses and Riquet's bargain» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 1 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Riquet with the Tuft, part 11: the two p…

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yo, the eldest princess was proper pretty but dead thick, innit

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** eldest princess · **What happens:** be

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1086 «Perrault's Tales, Riquet with the Tuft, part 11: the two princesses and Riquet's bargain» 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/1086-pg29021-part11/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1086-pg29021-part11:t1:1
# text = yo, the eldest princess was proper pretty but dead thick, innit
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	innit	innit	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the eldest princess |  |  |  |  | pretty, thick *property* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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she was gorgeous yet couldn't spot wit if it smacked her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1086-pg29021-part11:t1:o1:1
# text = she was gorgeous yet couldn't spot wit if it smacked her
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	spot	spot	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	smacked	smack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | gorgeous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **spot** | could |  | wit |  |  | yet |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wit=Destination |
| 3 | **smack** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | wit | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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she was fit but clueless, dead honest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1086-pg29021-part11:t1:o2:1
# text = she was fit but clueless, dead honest
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	clueless	clueless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | fit *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
she was fit, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1086-pg29021-part11:t1:o3:1
# text = she was fit, mate
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | mate *vocative*; fit *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
she was pretty and no brains at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1086-pg29021-part11:t1:o4:1
# text = she was pretty and no brains at all
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | she | no brains |  | all |  | pretty *property* | tree rules |

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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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