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title: Who told the Prince the facts about her, like proper gossip? — Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who told the Prince the facts about her, like proper gossip? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1092 «Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17: the Princess, hidden in her donkey skin, works at a farm and the Prince spies on her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Test 10 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17: the Princess, hidd…

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Who told the Prince the facts about her, like proper gossip?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** facts, Prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1092 «Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17: the Princess, hidden in her donkey skin, works at a farm and the Prince spies on her» 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/1092-pg29021-part17/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1092-pg29021-part17:t10:1
# text = Who told the Prince the facts about her, like proper gossip?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  | the facts | the Prince |  |  | about her *= she*; like proper gossip | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient fact=Topic |

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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 goat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1092-pg29021-part17:t10:o1:1
# text = a goat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the farm people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1092-pg29021-part17:t10:o2:1
# text = the farm people
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1092-pg29021-part17:t10:o3:1
# text = the king
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the farmer's dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1092-pg29021-part17:t10:o4:1
# text = the farmer's dog
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	dog	dog	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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