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title: so why did the prince want to bounce home? — Russian Folk-Tales, Ivan Golik, part 3… · tree and pragmatics
description: so why did the prince want to bounce home? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1132 «Russian Folk-Tales, Ivan Golik, part 38: the prince wins the serpent's daughter with Golik's help, then plans to go home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Ivan Golik, part 38: the prince wins t…

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so why did the prince want to bounce home?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** do, want, bounce · **To what, where:** home

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1132 «Russian Folk-Tales, Ivan Golik, part 38: the prince wins the serpent's daughter with Golik's help, then plans to go home» 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/1132-pg29672-part38/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1132-pg29672-part38:t11:1
# text = so why did the prince want to bounce home?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	bounce	bounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | present | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **bounce** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | home |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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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they had no food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1132-pg29672-part38:t11:o1:1
# text = they had no food
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | they | no food |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |

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

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they meant no good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1132-pg29672-part38:t11:o2:1
# text = they meant no good
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | past | they | no good |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Topic |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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they meant no good for the prince at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1132-pg29672-part38:t11:o3:1
# text = they meant no good for the prince at all
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | past | they | no good |  | all |  | for the prince | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot good=Theme for prince=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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they wanted the bow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1132-pg29672-part38:t11:o4:1
# text = they wanted the bow
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | they | the bow |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bow=Theme |

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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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