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title: Fam, what was the prince's big hang-up about the fox? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fam, what was the prince's big hang-up about the fox? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1636 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the prince beheads the fox, then returns in disguise and wakes the bird» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the pri…

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Fam, what was the prince's big hang-up about the fox?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** big hang · **What happens:** be

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1636 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the prince beheads the fox, then returns in disguise and wakes the bird» 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/1636-pg5615-part25/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1636-pg5615-part25:t12:1
# text = Fam, what was the prince's big hang-up about the fox?
1	Fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	1	nmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hang	hang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the prince's big hang about the fox |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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He was scared, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1636-pg5615-part25:t12:o1:1
# text = He was scared, bruv
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	cop	_	_
3	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | He |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He feared the lions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1636-pg5615-part25:t12:o2:1
# text = He feared the lions
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feared	fear	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	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | past | He | the lions |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He was scared of the robbers and the king's men at the palace gate

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1636-pg5615-part25:t12:o3:1
# text = He was scared of the robbers and the king's men at the palace gate
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	cop	_	_
3	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | He |  |  | the palace gate |  | of the robbers and the king's men; scared *property* | tree rules |

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

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He couldn't chop his mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1636-pg5615-part25:t12:o4:1
# text = He couldn't chop his mate
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	chop	chop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **chop** | could | He | his mate |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Patient |

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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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