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title: the prince nearly topped himself, didn't he? what stopped him? — d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible… · tree and pragmatics
description: the prince nearly topped himself, didn't he? what stopped him? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1698 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 22: the Prince escapes the giant, then Rosalie is snatched back» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 10 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 22: the…

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the prince nearly topped himself, didn't he? what stopped him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** top, not do, stop · **To what, where:** prince

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1698 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 22: the Prince escapes the giant, then Rosalie is snatched back» 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/1698-pg640-part22/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1698-pg640-part22:t10:1
# text = the prince nearly topped himself, didn't he? what stopped him?
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	topped	top	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **top** | past | the prince | prince |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **not** **do** | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stop** | past |  | prince |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality |

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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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The sound of Rosalie's voice from afar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1698-pg640-part22:t10:o1:1
# text = The sound of Rosalie's voice from afar
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	afar	afar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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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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The hope of the cabinets of the years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1698-pg640-part22:t10:o2:1
# text = The hope of the cabinets of the years
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cabinets	cabinet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** |  | the cabinets of the years |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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His love

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1698-pg640-part22:t10:o3:1
# text = His love
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1698-pg640-part22:t10:o4:1
# text = Hope
1	Hope	hope	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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