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title: Wait, so the ball was secretly a prince? — Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, so the ball was secretly a prince? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 3 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: t…

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Wait, so the ball was secretly a prince?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, ball · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** prince

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» 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/1247-pg3282-part48/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t3:1
# text = Wait, so the ball was secretly a prince?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the ball | a prince |  |  |  | secretly *property* | 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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Nah, just a ball

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t3:o1:1
# text = Nah, just a ball
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a frog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t3:o2:1
# text = Yeah, a frog
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t3:o3:1
# text = Nah
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Yeah, a real prince

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t3:o4:1
# text = Yeah, a real prince
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	prince	prince	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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