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title: wait, the princess is ugly and nobody wants her, that's harsh, right? — Household Stories, Rosemary, part 41:… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, the princess is ugly and nobody wants her, that's harsh, right? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1652 «Household Stories, Rosemary, part 41: a maiden seeks her lost husband, helped by the Sun, the Moon and the Wind» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Test 8 · ★ · Household Stories, Rosemary, part 41: a maiden seeks her l…

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wait, the princess is ugly and nobody wants her, that's harsh, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, princess, nobody, that · **What happens:** wait, be, want · **To what, where:** princess

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1652 «Household Stories, Rosemary, part 41: a maiden seeks her lost husband, helped by the Sun, the Moon and the Wind» 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/1652-pg5615-part41/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1652-pg5615-part41:t8:1
# text = wait, the princess is ugly and nobody wants her, that's harsh, right?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the princess |  |  |  |  | ugly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **want** | present | nobody | princess |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | harsh *property* | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, she's fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1652-pg5615-part41:t8:o1:1
# text = nah, she's fine
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | she |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, sad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1652-pg5615-part41:t8:o2:1
# text = yeah, sad
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, that's sad for everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1652-pg5615-part41:t8:o3:1
# text = yeah, that's sad for everyone
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | for everyone; sad *property* | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, that's rough for her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1652-pg5615-part41:t8:o4:1
# text = yeah, that's rough for her
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | for her *= she*; rough *property* | tree rules |

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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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