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title: innit, what was the green lion supposed to do to Placida? — Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: innit, what was the green lion supposed to do to Placida? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1920 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' quests end in joy» 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 was wr
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# Test 3 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' ques…

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innit, what was the green lion supposed to do to Placida?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** innit · **What happens:** be, suppose, do · **To what, where:** green lion, Placida

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1920 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' quests end in joy» 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/1920-pg7277-part57/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1920-pg7277-part57:t3:1
# text = innit, what was the green lion supposed to do to Placida?
1	innit	innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Placida	Placida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | innit | the green lion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **suppose** | participle |  | the green lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  | Placida |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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eat her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1920-pg7277-part57:t3:o1:1
# text = eat her
1	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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bring her back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1920-pg7277-part57:t3:o2:1
# text = bring her back
1	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring back** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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kill her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1920-pg7277-part57:t3:o3:1
# text = kill her
1	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | imperative | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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guard the gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1920-pg7277-part57:t3:o4:1
# text = guard the gate
1	guard	guard	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | imperative | you *not said here* | the gate |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary |

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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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