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title: What was the old lady's name, then? — Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 53: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the old lady's name, then? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1916 «Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 53: a hungry prince, a patient old woman, and a bell at the castle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice w
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# Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 53: a hungry prince, a pat…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What was the old lady's name, then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** name, old lady · **What happens:** be, name

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1916 «Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 53: a hungry prince, a patient old woman, and a bell at the castle» 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/1916-pg7277-part53/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1916-pg7277-part53:t5:1
# text = What was the old lady's name, then?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the old lady's name |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **name** |  | the old lady |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Gentle, like, that's her actual name

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1916-pg7277-part53:t5:o1:1
# text = Gentle, like, that's her actual name
1	Gentle	Gentle	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	actual	actual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that | her actual name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mercy, like, that's her actual name

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1916-pg7277-part53:t5:o2:1
# text = Mercy, like, that's her actual name
1	Mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	actual	actual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that | her actual name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Grace, like, that's her actual name

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1916-pg7277-part53:t5:o3:1
# text = Grace, like, that's her actual name
1	Grace	Grace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	actual	actual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that | her actual name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Patience, like, that's her actual name

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1916-pg7277-part53:t5:o4:1
# text = Patience, like, that's her actual name
1	Patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	actual	actual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that | her actual name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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