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title: Dead vain, that lot. Who wanted a statue of himself? — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead vain, that lot. Who wanted a statue of himself? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 2033 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the Rose, part 1: the Swallow dies, the statue is melted, and the Student needs a red rose» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and
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# Test 5 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the…

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Dead vain, that lot. Who wanted a statue of himself?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** want · **To what, where:** statue

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 2033 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the Rose, part 1: the Swallow dies, the statue is melted, and the Student needs a red rose» 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/2033-pg902-part3/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Dead vain, that lot.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:t5:1
# text = Dead vain, that lot.
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* Who wanted a statue of himself?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:t5:2
# text = Who wanted a statue of himself?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past |  | a statue of himself |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot statue=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Student

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:t5:o1:1
# text = Student
1	Student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The Mayor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:t5:o2:1
# text = The Mayor
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Prince

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:t5:o3:1
# text = The Prince
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Lizard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:t5:o4:1
# text = Lizard
1	Lizard	lizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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