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title: Yo, how did Rosette not sink? Her bed had phoenix feathers in it — Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, how did Rosette not sink? Her bed had phoenix feathers in it Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1526 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked nurse plans to swap her daughter for the Princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 1 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked n…

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Yo, how did Rosette not sink? Her bed had phoenix feathers in it

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Rosette, bed · **What happens:** not sink, have · **To what, where:** phoenix feathers, it

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1526 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked nurse plans to swap her daughter for the 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/1526-pg540-part23/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Yo, how did Rosette not sink?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1526-pg540-part23:t1:1
# text = Yo, how did Rosette not sink?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	Rosette	Rosette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sink** | past · do-support | Rosette |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Her bed had phoenix feathers in it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1526-pg540-part23:t1:2
# text = Her bed had phoenix feathers in it
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	phoenix	phoenix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Rosette's bed | phoenix feathers |  | it |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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phoenix feathers in the mattress

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1526-pg540-part23:t1:o1:1
# text = phoenix feathers in the mattress
1	phoenix	phoenix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mattress	mattress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a bed of seaweed and reeds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1526-pg540-part23:t1:o2:1
# text = a bed of seaweed and reeds
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
6	reeds	reed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reed** | present | a bed of seaweed |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a soft bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1526-pg540-part23:t1:o3:1
# text = a soft bed
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bed	bed	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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they floated on the water well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1526-pg540-part23:t1:o4:1
# text = they floated on the water well
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | past | they |  |  | the water |  | well *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory |

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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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