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title: Bruh, what did the empress tell the prince not to open? — Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-Hens and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruh, what did the empress tell the prince not to open? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1759 «Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples, part 10: the prince finds a voice begging for water in the twelfth cellar» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples, part…

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Bruh, what did the empress tell the prince not to open?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** empress · **What happens:** tell, not open · **To what, where:** prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1759 «Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples, part 10: the prince finds a voice begging for water in the twelfth cellar» 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/1759-pg641-part10/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1759-pg641-part10:t8:1
# text = Bruh, what did the empress tell the prince not to open?
1	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	empress	empress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 empress |  | the prince |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient prince=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **open** | to-infinitive | the empress *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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The twelfth cellar door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1759-pg641-part10:t8:o1:1
# text = The twelfth cellar door
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	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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The cellar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1759-pg641-part10:t8:o2:1
# text = The cellar
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The chamber of the empress

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1759-pg641-part10:t8:o3:1
# text = The chamber of the empress
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	empress	empress	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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The gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1759-pg641-part10:t8:o4:1
# text = The gate
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gate	gate	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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