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title: Did the Swallow reckon the Prince was a nice bloke? — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the Swallow reckon the Prince was a nice bloke? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 2031 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1: the Swallow meets the weeping statue and agrees to help» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 11 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1…

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Did the Swallow reckon the Prince was a nice bloke?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Swallow, Prince · **What happens:** reckon, be · **To what, where:** nice bloke

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2031 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1: the Swallow meets the weeping statue and agrees to help» 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/2031-pg902-part1/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:t11:1
# text = Did the Swallow reckon the Prince was a nice bloke?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past · do-support | the Swallow |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the Prince | a nice bloke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, but he was too polite to say it out loud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:t11:o1:1
# text = Yeah, but he was too polite to say it out loud
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	csubj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | polite *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say out** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | it |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Yeah, he thought the Prince was lovely but he was much too polite to actually say it out loud

<!-- fold The tree, 19 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:t11:o2:1
# text = Yeah, he thought the Prince was lovely but he was much too polite to actually say it out loud
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	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	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	csubj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  | lovely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | polite *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say out** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | it |  |  |  | actually, loud *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, but he was far too polite to say it out loud to anyone at all

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:t11:o3:1
# text = Yeah, but he was far too polite to say it out loud to anyone at all
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	csubj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | polite *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say out** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | it | anyone |  |  | loud *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to anyone=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he reckoned he was a bit of a snob

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:t11:o4:1
# text = Nah, he reckoned he was a bit of a snob
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	snob	snob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | he | a bit |  |  |  | of a snob | tree rules |

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