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title: Lol, what did the Prince call Tattercoats? — English Fairy Tales, Tattercoats: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what did the Prince call Tattercoats? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 245 «English Fairy Tales, Tattercoats: the goosegirl dances into the ball and is crowned Princess, and the gooseherd vanishes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tattercoats: the goosegirl dances int…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Lol, what did the Prince call Tattercoats?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Tattercoats · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 245 «English Fairy Tales, Tattercoats: the goosegirl dances into the ball and is crowned Princess, and the gooseherd vanishes» 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/245-pg14241-part12/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:245-pg14241-part12:t12:1
# text = Lol, what did the Prince call Tattercoats?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	Tattercoats	tattercoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · do-support | the Prince | Tattercoats |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme tattercoat=Result |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
His bride, the loveliest girl around

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:245-pg14241-part12:t12:o1:1
# text = His bride, the loveliest girl around
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	around	around	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
His bride, the loveliest girl around, and the crown's true heir

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:245-pg14241-part12:t12:o2:1
# text = His bride, the loveliest girl around, and the crown's true heir
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	around	around	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	heir	heir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
His bride, the loveliest girl around, whom he would wed by morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:245-pg14241-part12:t12:o3:1
# text = His bride, the loveliest girl around, whom he would wed by morning
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	around	around	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	wed	wed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wed** | would | His bride |  |  |  | morning |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
His queen, the fairest in the land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:245-pg14241-part12:t12:o4:1
# text = His queen, the fairest in the land
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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

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