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title: What did the poor girl do when the Prince looked in, like, shy? — Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the poor girl do when the Prince looked in, like, shy? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1925 «Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning girl's spindle leads a prince to her door» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning gi…

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What did the poor girl do when the Prince looked in, like, shy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** do, look in · **To what, where:** poor girl

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1925 «Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning girl's spindle leads a prince to her door» 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/1925-pg7277-part62/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:t10:1
# text = What did the poor girl do when the Prince looked in, like, shy?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	in	in	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	shy	shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the poor girl |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Eventuality |
| 2 | **look in** | present · do-support | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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smiled and span on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:t10:o1:1
# text = smiled and span on
1	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	span	span	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smile** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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blushed deeply and kept span on at her wheel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:t10:o2:1
# text = blushed deeply and kept span on at her wheel
1	blushed	blush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	span	span	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blush** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | deeply *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | participle |  | span |  | her wheel |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent span=Theme on wheel=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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blushed and span on without once looking up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:t10:o3:1
# text = blushed and span on without once looking up
1	blushed	blush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	span	span	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
7	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blush** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **span** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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

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blushed and span on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:t10:o4:1
# text = blushed and span on
1	blushed	blush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	span	span	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blush** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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