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title: Bro, what did the Princess's scarf look like, proper gross? — Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did the Princess's scarf look like, proper gross? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1508 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy procession, a cursed scarf, a midnight escape by boat» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 3 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy pro…

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Bro, what did the Princess's scarf look like, proper gross?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** do, look · **To what, where:** scarf

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1508 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy procession, a cursed scarf, a midnight escape by boat» 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/1508-pg540-part5/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:t3:1
# text = Bro, what did the Princess's scarf look like, proper gross?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	scarf	scarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	gross	gross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Bro | the Princess's scarf |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarf=Eventuality |
| 2 | **look** | present | Bro |  |  |  |  | like proper gross | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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rats' tails and frogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:t3:o1:1
# text = rats' tails and frogs
1	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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spiders' webs and bat wings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:t3:o2:1
# text = spiders' webs and bat wings
1	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	webs	web	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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moths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:t3:o3:1
# text = moths
1	moths	moth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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bat wings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:t3:o4:1
# text = bat wings
1	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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