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title: Like, why didn't Desiree want the prince to see her change back? — Fairy Tales, The White Doe, part 40: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Like, why didn't Desiree want the prince to see her change back? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1174 «Fairy Tales, The White Doe, part 40: the prince wounds the doe, Eglantine claims her, and Becasigue finds Desiree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The White Doe, part 40: the prince wounds the…

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Like, why didn't Desiree want the prince to see her change back?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Desiree, prince · **What happens:** not want, see, change back · **To what, where:** prince

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1174 «Fairy Tales, The White Doe, part 40: the prince wounds the doe, Eglantine claims her, and Becasigue finds Desiree» 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/1174-pg3027-part40/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1174-pg3027-part40:t10:1
# text = Like, why didn't Desiree want the prince to see her change back?
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | Desiree | the prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **change back** | infinitive | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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 {#o1}

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She wanted him to leave first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1174-pg3027-part40:t10:o1:1
# text = She wanted him to leave first
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | She | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | him *= he* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She wanted their first meeting to take place somewhere far away from here

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1174-pg3027-part40:t10:o2:1
# text = She wanted their first meeting to take place somewhere far away from here
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | She | their first meeting |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | their first meeting *not said here* | place |  |  |  | away, somewhere *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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She feared he would be scared

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1174-pg3027-part40:t10:o3:1
# text = She feared he would be scared
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | past | She |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | would | he |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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She wanted their first meeting to be elsewhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1174-pg3027-part40:t10:o4:1
# text = She wanted their first meeting to be elsewhere
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | She | their first meeting |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meeting=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | She *not said here* |  |  |  |  | elsewhere *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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