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title: Oi, what did the princess tie in his hair? — English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-C… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, what did the princess tie in his hair? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 261 «English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills the dragon and wins the princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was 
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# Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills t…

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Oi, what did the princess tie in his hair?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** princess tie, hair

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 261 «English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills the dragon and wins the princess» 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/261-pg14241-part28/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:t5:1
# text = Oi, what did the princess tie in his hair?
1	Oi	oi	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	7	det	_	_
6	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tie	tie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the princess tie |  | his hair |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tie=Eventuality |

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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}

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a diamond ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:t5:o1:1
# text = a diamond ring
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	diamond	diamond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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her mother's jeweled necklace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:t5:o2:1
# text = her mother's jeweled necklace
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	jeweled	jewel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	necklace	necklace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jewel** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a ring from her finger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:t5:o3:1
# text = a ring from her finger
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a silver brooch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:t5:o4:1
# text = a silver brooch
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	brooch	brooch	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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