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title: Which night was the prince coming to get her? — Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which night was the prince coming to get her? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1454 «Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride, then three maidens and a raven's message» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 12 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride…

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Which night was the prince coming to get her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** night, prince · **What happens:** be, come, get · **To what, where:** prince, her

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1454 «Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride, then three maidens and a raven's message» 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/1454-pg503-part41/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1454-pg503-part41:t12:1
# text = Which night was the prince coming to get her?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | which night | the prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

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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 {#o1}

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The eighth night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1454-pg503-part41:t12:o1:1
# text = The eighth night
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	eighth	eighth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	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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Tonight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1454-pg503-part41:t12:o2:1
# text = Tonight
1	Tonight	tonight	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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The seventh night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1454-pg503-part41:t12:o3:1
# text = The seventh night
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The ninth night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1454-pg503-part41:t12:o4:1
# text = The ninth night
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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