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title: Sorted, what could the Prince have been turned into for seven years? — Pentamerone, The Serpent, part 42: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sorted, what could the Prince have been turned into for seven years? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1905 «Pentamerone, The Serpent, part 42: the skin burns, the prince becomes a dove, and Grannonia goes after him with a fox» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Test 12 · ★ · Pentamerone, The Serpent, part 42: the skin burns, the pri…

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Sorted, what could the Prince have been turned into for seven years?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** sort, turn · **To what, where:** Prince

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1905 «Pentamerone, The Serpent, part 42: the skin burns, the prince becomes a dove, and Grannonia goes after him with a fox» 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/1905-pg7277-part42/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1905-pg7277-part42:t12:1
# text = Sorted, what could the Prince have been turned into for seven years?
1	Sorted	sort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sort** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turn** | could · perfect · passive |  | the Prince |  |  | year |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme what=Result |

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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 little grey mouse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1905-pg7277-part42:t12:o1:1
# text = a little grey mouse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mouse	mouse	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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a snake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1905-pg7277-part42:t12:o2:1
# text = a snake
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	snake	snake	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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a rat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1905-pg7277-part42:t12:o3:1
# text = a rat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1905-pg7277-part42:t12:o4:1
# text = a cat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	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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