--- title: Whom did the Princess select as her future husband? — Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9:… · tree and pragmatics description: Whom did the Princess select as her future husband? Exam question 4 of lesson 1422 «Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Bellissima, and she agrees to marry the Gold King» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1422-pg503-part9/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1422-pg503-part9/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Be… Whom did the Princess select as her future husband? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** select This is exam question 4 of lesson 1422 «Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Bellissima, and she agrees to marry the Gold King» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1422-pg503-part9/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:e4:1 # text = Whom did the Princess select as her future husband? 1 Whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 obj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 select select VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 future future ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **select** | past · do-support | the Princess | | | | | as Princess's future husband | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent whom=Theme as husband=Attribute | 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} the King of the Gold Mines ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:e4:o1:1 # text = the King of the Gold Mines 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:desc _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 Mines Mines PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the King of the Gold Mines from far away ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:e4:o2:1 # text = the King of the Gold Mines from far away 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 Mines Mine PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 9 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the King of the Silver Mines ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:e4:o3:1 # text = the King of the Silver Mines 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Silver Silver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Mines Mines PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the Prince of the Desert ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:e4:o4:1 # text = the Prince of the Desert 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Desert Desert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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