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title: fr, how did the youth pick the princess out? — Lang fairy book, The Golden Lion: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, how did the youth pick the princess out? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 1651 «Lang fairy book, The Golden Lion: the youngest brother hides in a golden lion, wins the princess by her white sash, and marries her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 14 · ★ · Lang fairy book, The Golden Lion: the youngest brother hid…

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fr, how did the youth pick the princess out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fr · **What happens:** be, pick out · **To what, where:** princess

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1651 «Lang fairy book, The Golden Lion: the youngest brother hides in a golden lion, wins the princess by her white sash, and marries her» 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/1651-pg5615-part40/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1651-pg5615-part40:t14:1
# text = fr, how did the youth pick the princess out?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	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	youth	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pick	pick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pick out** | present | fr | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1651-pg5615-part40:t14:o1:1
# text = the ring
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the white sash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1651-pg5615-part40:t14:o2:1
# text = the white sash
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sash	sash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the golden ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1651-pg5615-part40:t14:o3:1
# text = the golden ring
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ring	ring	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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the red sash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1651-pg5615-part40:t14:o4:1
# text = the red sash
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sash	sash	NOUN	NN	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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