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# Test 13 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

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peak, the Prince was fuming when Melinette told him about Grumedan, what did he want to do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Prince, Melinette, Grumedan · **What happens:** fume, tell, want, do · **To what, where:** peak, Prince, Grumedan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1880 «Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 17: Grumedan dazzles Potentilla with flowers, frogs and pearls, and Narcissus answers with a nightingale» 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/1880-pg7277-part17/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1880-pg7277-part17:t13:1
# text = peak, the Prince was fuming when Melinette told him about Grumedan, what did he want to do?
1	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	fuming	fume	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	Melinette	Melinette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Grumedan	Grumedan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fume** | past · progressive | the Prince | peak |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Melinette |  | Prince |  |  | about Grumedan | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about grumedan=Topic |
| 3 | **want** | past · do-support | Melinette | Grumedan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Grumedan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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do some daft things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1880-pg7277-part17:t13:o1:1
# text = do some daft things
1	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
3	daft	daft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | some daft things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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fight, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1880-pg7277-part17:t13:o2:1
# text = fight, bruv
1	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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get revenge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1880-pg7277-part17:t13:o3:1
# text = get revenge
1	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | imperative | you *not said here* | revenge |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer revenge=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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challenge him to a duel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1880-pg7277-part17:t13:o4:1
# text = challenge him to a duel
1	challenge	challenge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	duel	duel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **challenge** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  | to a duel | 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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