--- title: Was the toad a bit of a legend for helping the prince? — Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the th… · tree and pragmatics description: Was the toad a bit of a legend for helping the prince? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1912 «Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the three princes fight over Parsley, a witch turns her into a toad, and the youngest prince wins the first two tasks with the toad's help» of the books course of Mova's primary school, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1912-pg7277-part49/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1912-pg7277-part49/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the three princes fight ov… Was the toad a bit of a legend for helping the prince? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** legend · **What happens:** be, help · **To what, where:** toad, prince This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1912 «Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the three princes fight over Parsley, a witch turns her into a toad, and the youngest prince wins the first two tasks with the toad's help» 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/1912-pg7277-part49/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1912-pg7277-part49:t8:1 # text = Was the toad a bit of a legend for helping the prince? 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 toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 csubj _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 for for SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 helping help VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the toad | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | gerund | a legend *not said here* | | the prince | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Beneficiary | 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} Nah, kinda sus ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1912-pg7277-part49:t8:o1:1 # text = Nah, kinda sus 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 kinda kinda ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 sus sus NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Yeah, proper legend ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1912-pg7277-part49:t8:o2:1 # text = Yeah, proper legend 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Yeah, but not really ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1912-pg7277-part49:t8:o3:1 # text = Yeah, but not really 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 but but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 really really ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Not really ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1912-pg7277-part49:t8:o4:1 # text = Not really 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 really really ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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