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title: Cor, what date's the Princess's bday? — Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The P… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cor, what date's the Princess's bday? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 638 «Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6: the dragon's birthday plot is revealed and the Princess is offered as a present» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 5 · ★ · Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6…

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Cor, what date's the Princess's bday?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Cor · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** bday

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 638 «Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6: the dragon's birthday plot is revealed and the Princess is offered as a present» 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/638-pg23661-part6/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t5:1
# text = Cor, what date's the Princess's bday?
1	Cor	Cor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
4	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	bday	bday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Cor | the Princess's bday |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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fifteenth of August

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t5:o1:1
# text = fifteenth of August
1	fifteenth	fifteenth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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June 3rd

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t5:o2:1
# text = June 3rd
1	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	3rd	3rd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	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 first of May

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t5:o3:1
# text = the first of May
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	first	first	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	May	May	PROPN	NNP	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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the second of October

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t5:o4:1
# text = the second of October
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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