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title: Mate, how come the Princess was so dead ill? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stov… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, how come the Princess was so dead ill? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1685 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stove, part 1: the princess promises help and loses her way home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stove, part 1: the princ…

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Mate, how come the Princess was so dead ill?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** come, be · **To what, where:** Princess

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1685 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stove, part 1: the princess promises help and loses her way home» 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/1685-pg640-part9/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t2:1
# text = Mate, how come the Princess was so dead ill?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive |  | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location princess=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Mate |  |  |  |  | ill *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 {#o1}

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Nothing sorted her except a fat toad, proper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t2:o1:1
# text = Nothing sorted her except a fat toad, proper
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sorted	sort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	except	except	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sort** | past | Nothing | her *= she* |  |  |  | except a fat toad | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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

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Nothing sorted her except stories, proper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t2:o2:1
# text = Nothing sorted her except stories, proper
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sorted	sort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	except	except	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sort** | past | Nothing | her *= she* |  |  |  | except stories | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Nothing sorted her except the iron stove, proper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t2:o3:1
# text = Nothing sorted her except the iron stove, proper
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sorted	sort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	except	except	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sort** | past | Nothing | her *= she* |  |  |  | except the iron stove | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing sorted her except a big sleep, proper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t2:o4:1
# text = Nothing sorted her except a big sleep, proper
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sorted	sort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	except	except	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sort** | past | Nothing | her *= she* |  |  |  | except a big sleep | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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