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title: Yo, what made the Princess faint on the cat? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what made the Princess faint on the cat? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1425 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid's trick, the diamond sword, and the King's fight to reach Bellissima» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 12 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid'…

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Yo, what made the Princess faint on the cat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** Princess faint

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1425 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid's trick, the diamond sword, and the King's fight to reach Bellissima» 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/1425-pg503-part12/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1425-pg503-part12:t12:1
# text = Yo, what made the Princess faint on the cat?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	faint	faint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | the Princess faint |  |  |  | on the cat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material faint=Product |

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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 {#o1}

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Hunger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1425-pg503-part12:t12:o1:1
# text = Hunger
1	Hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	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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Fear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1425-pg503-part12:t12:o2:1
# text = Fear
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Pain and terror

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1425-pg503-part12:t12:o3:1
# text = Pain and terror
1	Pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Heat and thirst

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1425-pg503-part12:t12:o4:1
# text = Heat and thirst
1	Heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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