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title: Mate, what was the Princess called, innit? — Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Pur… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what was the Princess called, innit? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 636 «Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4: the Dragon goes back into his picture, and the island that spun the wrong way gives Rotundia its wrong-sized animals» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with th
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# Test 1 · ★ · Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4…

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Mate, what was the Princess called, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be, call, innit · **To what, where:** Princess, Mate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 636 «Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4: the Dragon goes back into his picture, and the island that spun the wrong way gives Rotundia its wrong-sized animals» 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/636-pg23661-part4/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t1:1
# text = Mate, what was the Princess called, innit?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mate and the Princess | the Princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle · passive |  | Mate and the Princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **innit** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Bess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t1:o1:1
# text = Bess
1	Bess	Bess	PROPN	NNP	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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Ann

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t1:o2:1
# text = Ann
1	Ann	Ann	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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Lady Victoria

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t1:o3:1
# text = Lady Victoria
1	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Victoria	Victoria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Mary Ann

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t1:o4:1
# text = Mary Ann
1	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Ann	Ann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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