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title: Who was the King facing in the courtyard, mate? — d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was the King facing in the courtyard, mate? Test 13 · ★ 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; Mo
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# Test 13 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wed…

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Who was the King facing in the courtyard, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** face

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This is test 13 · ★ 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t13:1
# text = Who was the King facing in the courtyard, mate?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	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	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	facing	face	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | in the courtyard and mate | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in courtyard=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}

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The Yellow Dwarf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t13:o1:1
# text = The Yellow Dwarf
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Yellow Knight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t13:o2:1
# text = The Yellow Knight
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Knight	knight	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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The Grey Sorcerer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t13:o3:1
# text = The Grey Sorcerer
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Sorcerer	Sorcerer	PROPN	NNP	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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The Fairy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t13:o4:1
# text = The Fairy
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fairy	fairy	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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