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title: Ngl, what did the Prince tie up in his hanky? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what did the Prince tie up in his hanky? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1123 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon, the Prince slays it but the coachman steals the glory» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon,…

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Ngl, what did the Prince tie up in his hanky?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ngl, Prince · **What happens:** do, tie up · **To what, where:** hanky

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1123 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon, the Prince slays it but the coachman steals the glory» 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/1123-pg29672-part29/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t4:1
# text = Ngl, what did the Prince tie up in his hanky?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tie	tie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hanky	hanky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Ngl |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tie up** | present | the Prince |  |  | Prince's hanky |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the six hearts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t4:o1:1
# text = the six hearts
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 tongues

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t4:o2:1
# text = the tongues
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the six tongues

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t4:o3:1
# text = the six tongues
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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his six eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t4:o4:1
# text = his six eyes
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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