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title: What did the courtiers spread about her, innit? — d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the courtiers spread about her, innit? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1865 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa, part 2: Fiordelisa is hidden away in a tower while the Prince visits» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 9 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa, part 2: Fiordelisa is…

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What did the courtiers spread about her, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** courtiers · **What happens:** spread, innit

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1865 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa, part 2: Fiordelisa is hidden away in a tower while the Prince visits» 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/1865-pg7277-part2/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1865-pg7277-part2:t9:1
# text = What did the courtiers spread about her, innit?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past · do-support | the courtiers |  |  |  |  | about her *= she* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme about she=Destination |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive | the courtiers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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that she was proud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1865-pg7277-part2:t9:o1:1
# text = that she was proud
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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vain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1865-pg7277-part2:t9:o2:1
# text = vain
1	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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she was vain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1865-pg7277-part2:t9:o3:1
# text = she was vain
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | vain *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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that she was vain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1865-pg7277-part2:t9:o4:1
# text = that she was vain
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | vain *property* | 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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