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title: What time of night was she dumped in the forest? — Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and… · tree and pragmatics
description: What time of night was she dumped in the forest? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1542 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, part 39: feathers instead of rods, a forest, and a crystal palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 11 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, pa…

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What time of night was she dumped in the forest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** dump · **To what, where:** she, forest

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1542 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, part 39: feathers instead of rods, a forest, and a crystal palace» 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/1542-pg540-part39/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1542-pg540-part39:t11:1
# text = What time of night was she dumped in the forest?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dumped	dump	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dump** | past · passive |  | she |  | the forest | time |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in forest=Trajectory |

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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 dead of the night, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1542-pg540-part39:t11:o1:1
# text = the dead of the night, mate
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	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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the middle of the pitch black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1542-pg540-part39:t11:o2:1
# text = the middle of the pitch black
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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 small hours of the dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1542-pg540-part39:t11:o3:1
# text = the small hours of the dark
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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midnight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1542-pg540-part39:t11:o4:1
# text = midnight
1	midnight	midnight	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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