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title: wait, the prince's people couldn't follow him, right? — Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the W… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, the prince's people couldn't follow him, right? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 1427 «Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 14: the Princess pricks her hand, falls asleep, and wakes when a Prince finds her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Test 14 · ★ · Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 14: the Pr…

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wait, the prince's people couldn't follow him, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, people · **What happens:** wait, not follow · **To what, where:** him

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1427 «Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 14: the Princess pricks her hand, falls asleep, and wakes when a Prince finds her» 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/1427-pg503-part14/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1427-pg503-part14:t14:1
# text = wait, the prince's people couldn't follow him, right?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
12	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **follow** | could | the prince's people | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 {#o1}

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the hedges grew back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1427-pg503-part14:t14:o1:1
# text = the hedges grew back
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow back** | past | the hedges |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the gate shut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1427-pg503-part14:t14:o2:1
# text = the gate shut
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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trees closed behind him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1427-pg503-part14:t14:o3:1
# text = trees closed behind him
1	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | participle |  | trees *not said here* |  |  |  | behind him *= he* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the path was blocked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1427-pg503-part14:t14:o4:1
# text = the path was blocked
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	blocked	block	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **block** | past · passive |  | the path |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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