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title: What did the King call the Dwarf, proper rank? — d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwa… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the King call the Dwarf, proper rank? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1423 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wedding is spoiled and Bellissima is stolen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 12 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wed…

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What did the King call the Dwarf, proper rank?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** King · **What happens:** do, call · **To what, where:** Dwarf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1423 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wedding is spoiled and Bellissima is stolen» 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/1423-pg503-part10/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t12:1
# text = What did the King call the Dwarf, proper rank?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **call** | present | the King |  | the Dwarf |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dwarf=Recipient |

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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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A hideous, wretched little monster of the marshes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t12:o1:1
# text = A hideous, wretched little monster of the marshes
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A wretched little monster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t12:o2:1
# text = A wretched little monster
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A dreadful dwarf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t12:o3:1
# text = A dreadful dwarf
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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An ugly little creature

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t12:o4:1
# text = An ugly little creature
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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