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title: were the other kings chill about her being so picky? — The Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwar… · tree and pragmatics
description: were the other kings chill about her being so picky? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1421 «The Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1: a proud princess and a queen's bargain with a dwarf» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 11 · ★ · The Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1: a proud p…

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were the other kings chill about her being so picky?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** other kings · **What happens:** be, chill · **To what, where:** other kings

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1421 «The Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1: a proud princess and a queen's bargain with a dwarf» 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/1421-pg503-part8/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1421-pg503-part8:t11:1
# text = were the other kings chill about her being so picky?
1	were	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	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	chill	chill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	picky	picky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the other kings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chill** | present | the other kings |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | the other kings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | picky *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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yeah, they all got really mad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1421-pg503-part8:t11:o1:1
# text = yeah, they all got really mad
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | they |  |  |  |  | mad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nope, they just kept sending poems

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1421-pg503-part8:t11:o2:1
# text = nope, they just kept sending poems
1	nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	sending	send	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | gerund | they *not said here* | poems |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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nah, a lot of them got super sad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1421-pg503-part8:t11:o3:1
# text = nah, a lot of them got super sad
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	super	super	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | a lot of them |  |  |  |  | sad, super *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, a lot of them got super sad and wrote even more verses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1421-pg503-part8:t11:o4:1
# text = nah, a lot of them got super sad and wrote even more verses
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	super	super	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | a lot of them |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **write** | past | a lot of them *not said here* | more verses |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Theme |

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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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