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title: Who was in charge of half the island, that Despair lady? — d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was in charge of half the island, that Despair lady? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1697 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 21: the Prince is wrecked and finds a land of doomed lovers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 8 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 21: the…

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Who was in charge of half the island, that Despair lady?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** charge

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1697 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 21: the Prince is wrecked and finds a land of doomed lovers» 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/1697-pg640-part21/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1697-pg640-part21:t8:1
# text = Who was in charge of half the island, that Despair lady?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	Despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | charge and that Despair lady |  | of half island | 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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A Queen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1697-pg640-part21:t8:o1:1
# text = A Queen
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	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}

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Fairy Despair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1697-pg640-part21:t8:o2:1
# text = Fairy Despair
1	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fairy Sorrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1697-pg640-part21:t8:o3:1
# text = Fairy Sorrow
1	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Sorrow	sorrow	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 Gnome

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1697-pg640-part21:t8:o4:1
# text = The Gnome
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Gnome	gnome	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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