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title: bro, did the king get a baby prince after all? — Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Q… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, did the king get a baby prince after all? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1837 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens, part 1: the King chases a white hind and is tricked into blinding his seven Queens» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 8 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens, part 1: the K…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bro, did the king get a baby prince after all?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** baby prince

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1837 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens, part 1: the King chases a white hind and is tricked into blinding his seven Queens» 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/1837-pg7128-part21/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1837-pg7128-part21:t8:1
# text = bro, did the king get a baby prince after all?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · do-support | the king | a baby prince |  |  | after all | bro *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, the baby was born to the youngest queen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1837-pg7128-part21:t8:o1:1
# text = nah, the baby was born to the youngest queen
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | the baby |  |  |  | to the youngest queen | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, the baby was born to the youngest queen, not to the one the fakir named

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1837-pg7128-part21:t8:o2:1
# text = nah, the baby was born to the youngest queen, not to the one the fakir named
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fakir	fakir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | the baby |  |  |  | to the youngest queen | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **name** | participle · passive | the one *not said here* | the fakir |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, the prince was born to the eldest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1837-pg7128-part21:t8:o3:1
# text = yeah, the prince was born to the eldest
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | the prince |  |  |  | to the eldest | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, the baby was born to the youngest queen, and the whole kingdom partied for days

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1837-pg7128-part21:t8:o4:1
# text = nah, the baby was born to the youngest queen, and the whole kingdom partied for days
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	partied	party	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | the baby |  |  |  | to the youngest queen | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **party** | participle | the whole kingdom |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |

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