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title: what did the girl tell the Prince to do with his new bow? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the girl tell the Prince to do with his new bow? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1710 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of clouds, a duck, a vanishing church and a boar» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 9 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of c…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
what did the girl tell the Prince to do with his new bow?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** tell, do · **To what, where:** Prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1710 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of clouds, a duck, a vanishing church and a boar» 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/1710-pg640-part34/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1710-pg640-part34:t9:1
# text = what did the girl tell the Prince to do with his new bow?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the girl |  | the Prince |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with his new bow | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
shoot every beast, don't spare any, and bring the hides back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1710-pg640-part34:t9:o1:1
# text = shoot every beast, don't spare any, and bring the hides back
1	shoot	shoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hides	hide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **spare** | infinitive · do-support | shoot | any |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent any=Asset |
| 2 | **bring back** | infinitive | shoot *not said here* | the hides |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hide=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
shoot every beast, don't spare any

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1710-pg640-part34:t9:o2:1
# text = shoot every beast, don't spare any
1	shoot	shoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **spare** | infinitive · do-support | shoot | any |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent any=Asset |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
shoot every beast, don't spare any, not even the young

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1710-pg640-part34:t9:o3:1
# text = shoot every beast, don't spare any, not even the young
1	shoot	shoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **spare** | infinitive · do-support | shoot | any |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent any=Asset |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
shoot every deer, spare none

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1710-pg640-part34:t9:o4:1
# text = shoot every deer, spare none
1	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	spare	spare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | imperative | you *not said here* | every deer |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme |
| 2 | **spare** | infinitive | you *not said here* | none |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent none=Asset |

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