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title: What's the moon and star thing about? — Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princ… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's the moon and star thing about? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1846 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the prince turns handsome, tricks his brothers-in-law and is refused at the gate» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 7 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the pr…

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What's the moon and star thing about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1846 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the prince turns handsome, tricks his brothers-in-law and is refused at the gate» 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/1846-pg7128-part30/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1846-pg7128-part30:t7:1
# text = What's the moon and star thing about?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Marks on his forehead and chin of his new prince look

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1846-pg7128-part30:t7:o1:1
# text = Marks on his forehead and chin of his new prince look
1	Marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Marks of his new prince look

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1846-pg7128-part30:t7:o2:1
# text = Marks of his new prince look
1	Marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** |  |  | his new prince look |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Marks of a rich king's look

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1846-pg7128-part30:t7:o3:1
# text = Marks of a rich king's look
1	Marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** |  |  | a rich king's look |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The moon and star are marks of his new princely look and status

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1846-pg7128-part30:t7:o4:1
# text = The moon and star are marks of his new princely look and status
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	princely	princely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the moon and star | marks |  |  |  | of his new princely look and status | tree rules |

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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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