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title: Wait, the Prince is a whole statue, right? — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, the Prince is a whole statue, right? Test 3 · ★ 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 and of each
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# Test 3 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1…

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Wait, the Prince is a whole statue, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Prince · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** whole statue

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:t3:1
# text = Wait, the Prince is a whole statue, right?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Prince | a whole statue |  |  |  |  | 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}

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Yeah, gold leaf all over and sapphire eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:t3:o1:1
# text = Yeah, gold leaf all over and sapphire eyes
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	sapphire	sapphire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yeah, he's painted with a silver coat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:t3:o2:1
# text = Yeah, he's painted with a silver coat
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | present · passive |  | he |  |  |  | with a silver coat | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with coat=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he's made of stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:t3:o3:1
# text = Nah, he's made of stone
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | he |  |  |  | of stone | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he's bronze with some glass eyes too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:t3:o4:1
# text = Nah, he's bronze with some glass eyes too
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | he | bronze |  |  |  | with some glass eyes | tree rules |

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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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