--- title: Why did the Prince paint his face brown? — Andersen's Tales, The Swineherd, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Why did the Prince paint his face brown? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1733 «Andersen's Tales, The Swineherd, part 1: a poor Prince is refused by the Princess and becomes a swineherd» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1733-pg640-part57/t8/) [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/) / [Andersen's Tales, The Swineherd, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1733-pg640-part57/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Swineherd, part 1: a poor Prince is… Why did the Prince paint his face brown? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** paint · **To what, where:** face This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1733 «Andersen's Tales, The Swineherd, part 1: a poor Prince is refused by the Princess and becomes a swineherd» 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/1733-pg640-part57/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1733-pg640-part57:t8:1 # text = Why did the Prince paint his face brown? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 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 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 paint paint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **paint** | past · do-support | the Prince | Prince's face | | | | brown *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Destination | 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} to look poor ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1733-pg640-part57:t8:o1:1 # text = to look poor 1 to to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | to-infinitive | | | | | | poor *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} to hide who he was ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1733-pg640-part57:t8:o2:1 # text = to hide who he was 1 to to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 hide hide VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Int 2 ccomp _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | he | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} to scare the hag off ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1733-pg640-part57:t8:o3:1 # text = to scare the hag off 1 to to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 scare scare VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 hag hag NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scare off** | to-infinitive | | the hag | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hag=Experiencer | ### Option 4 {#o4} for fun ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1733-pg640-part57:t8:o4:1 # text = for fun 1 for for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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