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title: What did the mirror show Saphir, like, a proper peak girl? — The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the mirror show Saphir, like, a proper peak girl? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1689 «The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prince Saphir sets out to find the magic bird that cured his father» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Test 4 · ★ · The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prin…

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What did the mirror show Saphir, like, a proper peak girl?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mirror · **What happens:** do, show · **To what, where:** Saphir

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1689 «The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prince Saphir sets out to find the magic bird that cured his father» 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/1689-pg640-part13/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1689-pg640-part13:t4:1
# text = What did the mirror show Saphir, like, a proper peak girl?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	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	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | present | the mirror |  | Saphir |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent saphir=Recipient |

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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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A girl as lovely as the morning, with long hair and a golden crown

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1689-pg640-part13:t4:o1:1
# text = A girl as lovely as the morning, with long hair and a golden crown
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A girl as lovely as the morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1689-pg640-part13:t4:o2:1
# text = A girl as lovely as the morning
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A girl all in black and white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1689-pg640-part13:t4:o3:1
# text = A girl all in black and white
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A girl as lovely as the morning sun, singing by a dark silver river

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1689-pg640-part13:t4:o4:1
# text = A girl as lovely as the morning sun, singing by a dark silver river
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | by a dark silver river | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Location |

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