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title: Was the princess, like, grown up or still a little kid? — Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the princess, like, grown up or still a little kid? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1414 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's son cures the old King and asks for a ring» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 4 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's s…

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Was the princess, like, grown up or still a little kid?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, grow up · **To what, where:** princess

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1414 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's son cures the old King and asks for a ring» 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/1414-pg503-part1/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1414-pg503-part1:t4:1
# text = Was the princess, like, grown up or still a little kid?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow up** | participle |  | the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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She was fifteen, so old enough to be wed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1414-pg503-part1:t4:o1:1
# text = She was fifteen, so old enough to be wed
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	wed	w	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | She | fifteen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **w** | to-infinitive · passive | She *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She was sixteen, so old enough to be wed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1414-pg503-part1:t4:o2:1
# text = She was sixteen, so old enough to be wed
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	wed	w	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | She | sixteen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **w** | to-infinitive · passive | She *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She was sixteen and still played with dolls all day, so not really old enough to be wed

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1414-pg503-part1:t4:o3:1
# text = She was sixteen and still played with dolls all day, so not really old enough to be wed
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dolls	doll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	really	really	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	wed	w	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | She | sixteen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | participle |  |  |  |  | still; day | with dolls | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with doll=Theme |
| 3 | **w** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She was sixteen, so old enough to be wed, and everyone said she was clever

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1414-pg503-part1:t4:o4:1
# text = She was sixteen, so old enough to be wed, and everyone said she was clever
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	wed	wed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | She | sixteen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | She *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | clever *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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