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title: Whit did the sick prince want, Kate? — English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit did the sick prince want, Kate? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1972 «English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sister and cures the sick prince» 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 wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sist…

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Whit did the sick prince want, Kate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit, sick prince · **What happens:** do, want · **To what, where:** sick prince

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1972 «English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sister and cures the sick prince» 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/1972-pg7439-part31/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t6:1
# text = Whit did the sick prince want, Kate?
1	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Kate	Kate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Whit | the sick prince |  |  |  | Kate *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality |
| 2 | **want** | present | the sick prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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Mair birdie bites and the lassie's hand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t6:o1:1
# text = Mair birdie bites and the lassie's hand
1	Mair	mair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	birdie	birdie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bites	bite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lassie	lassie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | present | Mair birdie |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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

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Mair birdie bites

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t6:o2:1
# text = Mair birdie bites
1	Mair	mair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	birdie	birdie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bites	bite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Mair birdie bites and a gless o' wine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t6:o3:1
# text = Mair birdie bites and a gless o' wine
1	Mair	mair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	birdie	birdie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bites	bite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	gless	gless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | present | Mair birdie |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A cup o' fresh milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t6:o4:1
# text = A cup o' fresh milk
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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