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title: test: Dude, why did Grumpy wanna marry his son to the lame girl? — Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: Dude, why did Grumpy wanna marry his son to the lame girl? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1554 «Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refuses a wedding and finds magic in his tower» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 7 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refus…

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test: Dude, why did Grumpy wanna marry his son to the lame girl?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** test, Grumpy · **What happens:** do, marry · **To what, where:** son

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1554 «Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refuses a wedding and finds magic in his tower» 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/1554-pg540-part51/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:t7:1
# text = test: Dude, why did Grumpy wanna marry his son to the lame girl?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
8	wanna	wanna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	dep	_	_
9	marry	marry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	lame	lame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | test and Dude |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **marry** | infinitive | Grumpy | his son |  |  |  | to the lame girl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent son=Patient to girl=Co-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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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because the lame girl's father promised him a huge army

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:t7:o1:1
# text = because the lame girl's father promised him a huge army
1	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	lame	lame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the lame girl's father | a huge army | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal army=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to gain more land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:t7:o2:1
# text = to gain more land
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	gain	gain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | to-infinitive |  | more land |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |

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

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to get more powerful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:t7:o3:1
# text = to get more powerful
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | powerful *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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to unite both kingdoms so he rules everything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:t7:o4:1
# text = to unite both kingdoms so he rules everything
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	unite	unite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unite** | to-infinitive |  | both kingdoms |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rule** |  | he |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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