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title: Lowkey, how did the Prince end up blind? — Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lowkey, how did the Prince end up blind? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1568 «Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard orders Renelde to spin nettles into two shifts, and then falls ill» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard ord…

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Lowkey, how did the Prince end up blind?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Lowkey, Prince · **What happens:** do, end up

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1568 «Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard orders Renelde to spin nettles into two shifts, and then falls ill» 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/1568-pg540-part65/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t3:1
# text = Lowkey, how did the Prince end up blind?
1	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Lowkey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **end up** | present | the Prince |  |  |  |  | blind *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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.

## The options {#options}

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

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he landed in thorns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t3:o1:1
# text = he landed in thorns
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | past | he |  |  | thorns |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in thorn=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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he fell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t3:o2:1
# text = he fell
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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he was poisoned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t3:o3:1
# text = he was poisoned
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poison** | past · passive |  | he |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a witch cursed him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t3:o4:1
# text = a witch cursed him
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curse** | participle | a witch *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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