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title: why was beauty so hungry at the start — Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and the B… · tree and pragmatics
description: why was beauty so hungry at the start Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1439 «Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and the Beast, part 26: the enchanted palace, the gifts and the Prince's portrait» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 7 · ★ · Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and the Beast, part 26: the e…

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why was beauty so hungry at the start

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** beauty · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** start

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1439 «Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and the Beast, part 26: the enchanted palace, the gifts and the Prince's portrait» 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/1439-pg503-part26/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1439-pg503-part26:t7:1
# text = why was beauty so hungry at the start
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | beauty |  |  | the start |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |

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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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she skipped lunch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1439-pg503-part26:t7:o1:1
# text = she skipped lunch
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	skipped	skip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skip** | past | she | lunch |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the trip made her tired

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1439-pg503-part26:t7:o2:1
# text = the trip made her tired
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the trip | her *= she* |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |

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

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the ride had worn her out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1439-pg503-part26:t7:o3:1
# text = the ride had worn her out
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear out** | past · perfect · passive |  | the ride |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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she was lazy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1439-pg503-part26:t7:o4:1
# text = she was lazy
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	lazy	lazy	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** | past | she |  |  |  |  | lazy *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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