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title: Was the stranger on the brook the Prince, or some random bloke? — Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the stranger on the brook the Prince, or some random bloke? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1885 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine gets a white cow, then the Prince finds her and they ride off to the Leafy Palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree
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# Test 6 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine ge…

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Was the stranger on the brook the Prince, or some random bloke?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** stranger, brook

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1885 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine gets a white cow, then the Prince finds her and they ride off to the Leafy Palace» 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/1885-pg7277-part22/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1885-pg7277-part22:t6:1
# text = Was the stranger on the brook the Prince, or some random bloke?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
12	random	random	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the stranger or some random bloke |  | the brook |  |  | 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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A random farmer boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1885-pg7277-part22:t6:o1:1
# text = A random farmer boy
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	random	random	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Prince Featherhead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1885-pg7277-part22:t6:o2:1
# text = Prince Featherhead
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Featherhead	featherhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Prince Featherhead, the enchanted one from the palace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1885-pg7277-part22:t6:o3:1
# text = Prince Featherhead, the enchanted one from the palace
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Featherhead	featherhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Some passing merchant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1885-pg7277-part22:t6:o4:1
# text = Some passing merchant
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	passing	passing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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