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title: Who's the mate who kept bringing news to Narcissus? — Lang's fairy book, Prince Narcissus an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who's the mate who kept bringing news to Narcissus? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1882 «Lang's fairy book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla: Melinette saves Potentilla from poison and traps Grumedan» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 4 · ★ · Lang's fairy book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Who's the mate who kept bringing news to Narcissus?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate · **What happens:** be, keep, bring · **To what, where:** mate, news, Narcissus

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1882 «Lang's fairy book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla: Melinette saves Potentilla from poison and traps Grumedan» 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/1882-pg7277-part19/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1882-pg7277-part19:t4:1
# text = Who's the mate who kept bringing news to Narcissus?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	xcomp	_	_
8	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the mate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | past | the mate |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | gerund | the mate *not said here* | news | Narcissus |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent news=Theme to narcissus=Destination |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Philomel, Potentilla's faithful bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1882-pg7277-part19:t4:o1:1
# text = Philomel, Potentilla's faithful bird
1	Philomel	philomel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Philomel, the little bird that always sang to Potentilla in the palace garden and flew to Narcissus

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1882-pg7277-part19:t4:o2:1
# text = Philomel, the little bird that always sang to Potentilla in the palace garden and flew to Narcissus
1	Philomel	philomel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the little bird |  | Potentilla | the palace garden |  | always *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location |
| 2 | **fly** | past | the little bird *not said here* |  | Narcissus |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to narcissus=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Her cousin, the yellow canary bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1882-pg7277-part19:t4:o3:1
# text = Her cousin, the yellow canary bird
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	canary	canary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Philomel, Potentilla's faithful bird who flew from the Princess's window every morning

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1882-pg7277-part19:t4:o4:1
# text = Philomel, Potentilla's faithful bird who flew from the Princess's window every morning
1	Philomel	philomel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | Potentilla's faithful bird |  |  | the Princess's window | morning |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from window=Trajectory |

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