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title: Real talk, what was the Swineherd actually? — Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, what was the Swineherd actually? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1734 «Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince shows his true self and the Princess is sent away to sing outside» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince shows his true self…

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Real talk, what was the Swineherd actually?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Real talk · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Swineherd

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1734 «Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince shows his true self and the Princess is sent away to sing outside» 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/1734-pg640-part58/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1734-pg640-part58:t7:1
# text = Real talk, what was the Swineherd actually?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Real talk | the Swineherd |  |  |  | actually *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a Prince

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1734-pg640-part58:t7:o1:1
# text = a Prince
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a Lord

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1734-pg640-part58:t7:o2:1
# text = a Lord
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a prince from a far land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1734-pg640-part58:t7:o3:1
# text = a prince from a far land
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a Count

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1734-pg640-part58:t7:o4:1
# text = a Count
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Count	count	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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