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title: Mannikin's bang on, so what should the Princess do? — Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mannikin's bang on, so what should the Princess do? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1891 «Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 28: Mannikin wins the joust and the Ambassador's insolent letter arrives» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 28: M…

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Mannikin's bang on, so what should the Princess do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Princess, Mannikin · **What happens:** do, bang · **To what, where:** bang

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1891 «Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 28: Mannikin wins the joust and the Ambassador's insolent letter arrives» 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/1891-pg7277-part28/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1891-pg7277-part28:t10:1
# text = Mannikin's bang on, so what should the Princess do?
1	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | should | the Princess | Mannikin's bang |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **bang** |  | Mannikin |  |  |  |  |  | nom bang «event transitive»: poss=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 {#o1}

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tell them nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1891-pg7277-part28:t10:o1:1
# text = tell them nothing
1	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | nothing | them *= they* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient nothing=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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stall them with a promise until the grand entry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1891-pg7277-part28:t10:o2:1
# text = stall them with a promise until the grand entry
1	stall	stall	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	until	until	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	entry	entry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stall** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  | until the grand entry | with a promise | vn delay-53.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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attack them at dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1891-pg7277-part28:t10:o3:1
# text = attack them at dawn
1	attack	attack	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attack** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  | dawn |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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

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stall them with a promise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1891-pg7277-part28:t10:o4:1
# text = stall them with a promise
1	stall	stall	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stall** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | with a promise | vn delay-53.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |

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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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