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title: did the long-nose princess get the shirt clean? — Popular Tales from the Norse, East of… · tree and pragmatics
description: did the long-nose princess get the shirt clean? Test 9 · ★ 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 tree and pragma
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# Test 9 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
did the long-nose princess get the shirt clean?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nose princess · **What happens:** do, get · **To what, where:** shirt

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:t9:1
# text = did the long-nose princess get the shirt clean?
1	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | present | the nose princess | the shirt |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shirt=Stimulus |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nope, she scrubbed for hours and the tallow spots only grew larger across the whole shirt

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:t9:o1:1
# text = Nope, she scrubbed for hours and the tallow spots only grew larger across the whole shirt
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	scrubbed	scrub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	tallow	tallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
14	across	across	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scrub** | past | she |  |  |  | hour |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the tallow spots |  |  | the whole shirt |  | large *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nope, it stayed dirty too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:t9:o2:1
# text = Nope, it stayed dirty too
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | it |  |  |  |  | dirty *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nope, the spots actually got bigger and bigger the more she scrubbed at them

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:t9:o3:1
# text = Nope, the spots actually got bigger and bigger the more she scrubbed at them
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
7	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	scrubbed	scrub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the spots |  |  |  |  | actually, big *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **scrub** | past | she |  |  |  |  | at spots *= spot* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at they=Source |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nope, the spots got bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:t9:o4:1
# text = Nope, the spots got bigger
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the spots |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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