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title: so the princess is literally fifteen and nobody's allowed to date her? — The Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwar… · tree and pragmatics
description: so the princess is literally fifteen and nobody's allowed to date her? Test 9 · ★ 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 questio
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# Test 9 · ★ · The Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1: a proud p…

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so the princess is literally fifteen and nobody's allowed to date her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** be, allow · **To what, where:** fifteen, nobody, princess

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1421-pg503-part8:t9:1
# text = so the princess is literally fifteen and nobody's allowed to date her?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the princess | fifteen |  |  |  | literally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **allow** | present · passive |  | nobody | princess |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal she=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yup, she's fifteen and kinda untouchable

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1421-pg503-part8:t9:o1:1
# text = yup, she's fifteen and kinda untouchable
1	yup	yup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	untouchable	untouchable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | she | fifteen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  | kinda *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, she's just sixteen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1421-pg503-part8:t9:o2:1
# text = nah, she's just sixteen
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | she | sixteen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nope, she's fifteen and totally free

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1421-pg503-part8:t9:o3:1
# text = nope, she's fifteen and totally free
1	nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | she | fifteen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  | totally *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yup, she's sixteen and kinda bossy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1421-pg503-part8:t9:o4:1
# text = yup, she's sixteen and kinda bossy
1	yup	yup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	bossy	bossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | she | sixteen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  | kinda *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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