--- title: Why didn't the Princess scream at night, though? — Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnom… · tree and pragmatics description: Why didn't the Princess scream at night, though? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1699 «Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's name, and Rosalie reaches the Golden Isle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1699-pg640-part23/t13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnom…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1699-pg640-part23/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's… Why didn't the Princess scream at night, though? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Princess scream This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1699 «Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's name, and Rosalie reaches the Golden Isle» 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/1699-pg640-part23/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t13:1 # text = Why didn't the Princess scream at night, though? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 scream scream NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 though though SCONJ IN _ 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | the Princess scream | | | night | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scream=Eventuality | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} It would double the crow's pain ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t13:o1:1 # text = It would double the crow's pain 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 double double VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **double** | would | It | the crow's pain | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pain=Patient | | 2 | **pain** | | the crow | | | | | | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} It would hurt the crow more ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t13:o2:1 # text = It would hurt the crow more 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hurt** | would | It | the crow | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crow=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} It would wake the whole castle ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t13:o3:1 # text = It would wake the whole castle 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 wake wake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wake** | would | It | the whole castle | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent castle=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Crows hate noise ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t13:o4:1 # text = Crows hate noise 1 Crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hate hate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hate** | present | Crows | noise | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | **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. 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