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title: so what did the Princess dread losing most? — Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what did the Princess dread losing most? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1879 «Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 1: Narcissus finds the hidden princess and falls in love» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla,…

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so what did the Princess dread losing most?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Princess dread · **What happens:** do, lose · **To what, where:** Princess dread, most

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1879 «Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 1: Narcissus finds the hidden princess and falls in love» 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/1879-pg7277-part16/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1879-pg7277-part16:t12:1
# text = so what did the Princess dread losing most?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the Princess dread |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dread=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lose** | gerund | the Princess dread *not said here* | most |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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those amusing dreams of Narcissus and his silly jokes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1879-pg7277-part16:t12:o1:1
# text = those amusing dreams of Narcissus and his silly jokes
1	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	amusing	amusing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dream** |  |  | Narcissus and his silly jokes |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 2 | **joke** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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her nurse and her toys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1879-pg7277-part16:t12:o2:1
# text = her nurse and her toys
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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those amusing dreams of Narcissus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1879-pg7277-part16:t12:o3:1
# text = those amusing dreams of Narcissus
1	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	amusing	amusing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dream** |  |  | Narcissus |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the gentle songs of the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1879-pg7277-part16:t12:o4:1
# text = the gentle songs of the river
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** |  | the river |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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