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title: What did the prince turn into to leg it past the knights? — Fairy Book, The Prince and the Bee, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the prince turn into to leg it past the knights? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1229 «Fairy Book, The Prince and the Bee, part 30: the bee-prince steals the sword, and the mermaid pulls him under the waves» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and the Bee, part 30: the bee-princ…

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What did the prince turn into to leg it past the knights?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** do, turn · **To what, where:** leg

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1229 «Fairy Book, The Prince and the Bee, part 30: the bee-prince steals the sword, and the mermaid pulls him under the waves» 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/1229-pg3282-part30/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1229-pg3282-part30:t8:1
# text = What did the prince turn into to leg it past the knights?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	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	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
10	past	past	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	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 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | present | the prince | leg |  | leg |  | past the knights | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into leg=Trajectory |

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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 fierce bear covered in silver fur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1229-pg3282-part30:t8:o1:1
# text = A fierce bear covered in silver fur
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  | a fierce bear *not said here* |  |  |  | in silver fur | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in fur=Theme |

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

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A lion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1229-pg3282-part30:t8:o2:1
# text = A lion
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Wolf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1229-pg3282-part30:t8:o3:1
# text = Wolf
1	Wolf	wolf	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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A horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1229-pg3282-part30:t8:o4:1
# text = A horse
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	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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