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description: what did Carabosse say the Princess would be, like the worst luck ever? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1507 «Yellow Fairy Book, Mayblossom, part 4: the Princess spies Fanfaronade through a peep-hole and falls for him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 7 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Mayblossom, part 4: the Princess spies…

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what did Carabosse say the Princess would be, like the worst luck ever?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Carabosse, Princess · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1507 «Yellow Fairy Book, Mayblossom, part 4: the Princess spies Fanfaronade through a peep-hole and falls for him» 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/1507-pg540-part4/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1507-pg540-part4:t7:1
# text = what did Carabosse say the Princess would be, like the worst luck ever?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Carabosse	Carabosse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Carabosse |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | would | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | 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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the loveliest of all girls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1507-pg540-part4:t7:o1:1
# text = the loveliest of all girls
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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cursed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1507-pg540-part4:t7:o2:1
# text = cursed
1	cursed	curse	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 | **curse** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

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the unluckiest of the unlucky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1507-pg540-part4:t7:o3:1
# text = the unluckiest of the unlucky
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	unluckiest	unlucky	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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very sad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1507-pg540-part4:t7:o4:1
# text = very sad
1	very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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