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title: Proper wicked, but who nicked the princess? — Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper wicked, but who nicked the princess? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1560 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the youth wins a huge dappled horse and rides to the King's palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 3 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the yout…

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Proper wicked, but who nicked the princess?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** nick · **To what, where:** princess

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1560 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the youth wins a huge dappled horse and rides to the King's 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/1560-pg540-part57/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t3:1
# text = Proper wicked, but who nicked the princess?
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	nicked	nick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nick** | past |  | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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 {#o1}

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A Imp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t3:o1:1
# text = A Imp
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Imp	imp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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A Ghost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t3:o2:1
# text = A Ghost
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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A Troll

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t3:o3:1
# text = A Troll
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Troll	troll	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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A Dragon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t3:o4:1
# text = A Dragon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	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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