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title: Lol, what did the prince say would make him laugh? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silv… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what did the prince say would make him laugh? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1998 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous queen's plots end in her own death» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous…

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Lol, what did the prince say would make him laugh?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** do, say, make, laugh · **To what, where:** prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1998 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous queen's plots end in her own death» 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/1998-pg7885-part17/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:t10:1
# text = Lol, what did the prince say would make him laugh?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | would |  | prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **laugh** | infinitive | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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his wife alive again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:t10:o1:1
# text = his wife alive again
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Gold-tree alive again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:t10:o2:1
# text = Gold-tree alive again
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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to see Gold-tree come back alive and walk again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:t10:o3:1
# text = to see Gold-tree come back alive and walk again
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
3	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | Gold tree |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come back** | present |  |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Gold-tree coming back alive out of the locked room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:t10:o4:1
# text = Gold-tree coming back alive out of the locked room
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | gerund | Gold tree *not said here* |  |  | the locked room |  | alive *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out room=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lock** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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