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title: Haha, what did the Princess want most? — Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Widow'… · tree and pragmatics
description: Haha, what did the Princess want most? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1719 «Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Widow's Son, part 43: the King jails Martin, and his animal friends steal rolls to save him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 12 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Widow's Son, part 43: the…

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Haha, what did the Princess want most?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** do, want

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1719 «Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Widow's Son, part 43: the King jails Martin, and his animal friends steal rolls to save him» 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/1719-pg640-part43/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1719-pg640-part43:t12:1
# text = Haha, what did the Princess want most?
1	Haha	haha	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | present | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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More gold from the baker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1719-pg640-part43:t12:o1:1
# text = More gold from the baker
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Rid of her undesirable husband

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1719-pg640-part43:t12:o2:1
# text = Rid of her undesirable husband
1	Rid	Rid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	undesirable	undesirable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A quiet life in the palace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1719-pg640-part43:t12:o3:1
# text = A quiet life in the palace
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Rid of her undesirable husband and his power forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1719-pg640-part43:t12:o4:1
# text = Rid of her undesirable husband and his power forever
1	Rid	Rid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	undesirable	undesirable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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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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