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title: was the prince lowkey trying to bail on the long-nose girl? — Popular Tales from the Norse, East of… · tree and pragmatics
description: was the prince lowkey trying to bail on the long-nose girl? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1420 «Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 7: the North Wind carries her to the castle, and the shirt goes wrong» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tre
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# Test 6 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of…

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was the prince lowkey trying to bail on the long-nose girl?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** prince lowkey · **What happens:** be, try, bail · **To what, where:** prince lowkey

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1420 «Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 7: the North Wind carries her to the castle, and the shirt goes wrong» 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/1420-pg503-part7/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:t6:1
# text = was the prince lowkey trying to bail on the long-nose girl?
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	bail	bail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the prince lowkey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | gerund | the prince lowkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **bail** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the prince lowkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the nose girl | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Yeah, he was trying hard to get out of the whole marriage deal he had been stuck with

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:t6:o1:1
# text = Yeah, he was trying hard to get out of the whole marriage deal he had been stuck with
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past · progressive | he |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **get out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | he *not said here* | the whole marriage deal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stick** | past · perfect · passive |  | he |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he was not about that marriage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:t6:o2:1
# text = Yeah, he was not about that marriage
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | about that marriage | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he was sneaking around hoping to dodge that marriage and maybe get free of the whole mess

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:t6:o3:1
# text = Yeah, he was sneaking around hoping to dodge that marriage and maybe get free of the whole mess
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sneaking	sneak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	dodge	dodge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sneak around** | past · progressive | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hope** | gerund | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **dodge** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | he *not said here* | marriage |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent marriage=Location |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  | free, maybe *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he was trying to escape the match

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:t6:o4:1
# text = Yeah, he was trying to escape the match
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past · progressive | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **escape** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | he *not said here* | the match |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme match=Initial\_Location |

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