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title: Bruv, what was the Prince gonna give up for her? — Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what was the Prince gonna give up for her? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1452 «Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetches muslin from a millet seed and is sent for a princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 8 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetche…

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Bruv, what was the Prince gonna give up for her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bruv · **What happens:** be, give up · **To what, where:** Prince

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1452 «Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetches muslin from a millet seed and is sent for a princess» 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/1452-pg503-part39/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:t8:1
# text = Bruv, what was the Prince gonna give up for her?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	dep	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bruv | the Prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give up** | infinitive | Bruv |  |  |  |  | for her *= she* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Being king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:t8:o1:1
# text = Being king
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund |  | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A crown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:t8:o2:1
# text = A crown
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crown	crown	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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His kingdom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:t8:o3:1
# text = His kingdom
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	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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His royal title

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:t8:o4:1
# text = His royal title
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **title** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom title «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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