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title: test: Bruv, why's the Prince chilling in the tower anyway? — Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: Bruv, why's the Prince chilling in the tower anyway? Test 8 · ★ 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 of each
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# Test 8 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refus…

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test: Bruv, why's the Prince chilling in the tower anyway?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Prince chilling, tower

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:t8:1
# text = test: Bruv, why's the Prince chilling in the tower anyway?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	chilling	chilling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Prince chilling |  | the tower |  | anyway *property* | tree rules |

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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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he got banned for kissing the wrong maid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:t8:o1:1
# text = he got banned for kissing the wrong maid
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	kissing	kiss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ban** | past · passive |  | he |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **kiss** | gerund |  | the wrong maid |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Co-Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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he refused to marry the lame girl and was locked up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:t8:o2:1
# text = he refused to marry the lame girl and was locked up
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lame	lame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **marry** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* | the lame girl |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |
| 3 | **lock up** | past · passive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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he refused the marriage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:t8:o3:1
# text = he refused the marriage
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past | he | the marriage |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he said no to the wedding

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:t8:o4:1
# text = he said no to the wedding
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | he | no | the wedding |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to wedding=Recipient |

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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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