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title: wait, why'd the king ban spindles, like totally? — Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the W… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, why'd the king ban spindles, like totally? Test 5 · ★ 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 of the 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 14: the Pr…

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wait, why'd the king ban spindles, like totally?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1427-pg503-part14:t5:1
# text = wait, why'd the king ban spindles, like totally?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	ban	ban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	spindles	spindle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 |

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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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to stop the curse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1427-pg503-part14:t5:o1:1
# text = to stop the curse
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | to-infinitive |  | the curse |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality curse=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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for fun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1427-pg503-part14:t5:o2:1
# text = for fun
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	fun	fun	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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to dodge the prediction

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1427-pg503-part14:t5:o3:1
# text = to dodge the prediction
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	dodge	dodge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prediction	prediction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dodge** | to-infinitive |  | the prediction |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent prediction=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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to be mean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1427-pg503-part14:t5:o4:1
# text = to be mean
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | mean *property* | tree rules |

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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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