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title: Why did Fanfaronade attempt to cast the Princess into the sea? — Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printani… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did Fanfaronade attempt to cast the Princess into the sea? Exam question 4 of lesson 1510 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is freed and wed, and Halvor sees a lit castle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Exam question 4 · Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is…

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Why did Fanfaronade attempt to cast the Princess into the sea?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Fanfaronade · **What happens:** attempt, cast · **To what, where:** Princess, sea

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1510 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is freed and wed, and Halvor sees a lit castle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1510-pg540-part7/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:e4:1
# text = Why did Fanfaronade attempt to cast the Princess into the sea?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | past · do-support | Fanfaronade | the Princess |  | the sea |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cast** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Fanfaronade *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: 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 {#o1}

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to free the Admiral

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:e4:o1:1
# text = to free the Admiral
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to avenge Carabosse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:e4:o2:1
# text = to avenge Carabosse
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Carabosse	Carabosse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avenge** | to-infinitive |  | Carabosse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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to seize the carbuncle and dagger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:e4:o3:1
# text = to seize the carbuncle and dagger
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	seize	seize	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	carbuncle	carbuncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | to-infinitive |  | the carbuncle and dagger |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carbuncle=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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to win her love

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:e4:o4:1
# text = to win her love
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	win	win	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | to-infinitive |  | her love |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality |
| 2 | **love** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling 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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