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title: yo, who was begging the king for the prince, innit? — d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Princess Desir… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo, who was begging the king for the prince, innit? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1172 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Princess Desiree, part 38: the false bride is taken to the palace and exposed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 1 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Princess Desiree, part 38: the fal…

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yo, who was begging the king for the prince, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** beg, innit · **To what, where:** king

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1172 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Princess Desiree, part 38: the false bride is taken to the palace and exposed» 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/1172-pg3027-part38/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1172-pg3027-part38:t1:1
# text = yo, who was begging the king for the prince, innit?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past · progressive |  |  | the king |  |  | for the prince | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent king=Recipient for prince=Topic |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Tulip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1172-pg3027-part38:t1:o1:1
# text = Tulip
1	Tulip	tulip	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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Cerisette

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1172-pg3027-part38:t1:o2:1
# text = Cerisette
1	Cerisette	Cerisette	PROPN	NNP	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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Becasigue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1172-pg3027-part38:t1:o3:1
# text = Becasigue
1	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Nera

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1172-pg3027-part38:t1:o4:1
# text = Nera
1	Nera	Nera	PROPN	NNP	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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