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title: Ugh, what did the Princess make everyone promise in this part? — Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Mi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ugh, what did the Princess make everyone promise in this part? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1574 «Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Minnikin fights the second and third Trolls, and the Princess wins her rescuer» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Minnikin fights the se…

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Ugh, what did the Princess make everyone promise in this part?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Princess, everyone · **What happens:** do, make, promise · **To what, where:** everyone, part

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1574 «Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Minnikin fights the second and third Trolls, and the Princess wins her rescuer» 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/1574-pg540-part71/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1574-pg540-part71:t12:1
# text = Ugh, what did the Princess make everyone promise in this part?
1	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
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	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	_
9	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | the Princess | everyone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | infinitive | everyone *not said here* |  |  | this part |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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That the Troll's heads were not real

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1574-pg540-part71:t12:o1:1
# text = That the Troll's heads were not real
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Troll	Troll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | That |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Silence about the Troll

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1574-pg540-part71:t12:o2:1
# text = Silence about the Troll
1	Silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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That Ritter Red had lied about the fight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1574-pg540-part71:t12:o3:1
# text = That Ritter Red had lied about the fight
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	lied	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past · perfect | Ritter Red |  |  |  |  | about the fight | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about fight=Location |

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

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That Ritter Red would be lying about saving her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1574-pg540-part71:t12:o4:1
# text = That Ritter Red would be lying about saving her
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | would · progressive | That |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **save** | gerund | That *not said here* | Ritter |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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