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title: sus, who did the merchants say was the smartest princess? — Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shephe… · tree and pragmatics
description: sus, who did the merchants say was the smartest princess? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 666 «Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 11 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast…

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sus, who did the merchants say was the smartest princess?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sus, merchants · **What happens:** do, say, be · **To what, where:** smartest princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 666 «Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast» 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/666-pg2435-part6/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t11:1
# text = sus, who did the merchants say was the smartest princess?
1	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	smartest	smart	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | sus |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the merchants |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | sus | the smartest princess |  |  |  |  | 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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Princess Helena

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t11:o1:1
# text = Princess Helena
1	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Helena	Helena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lady Anastasia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t11:o2:1
# text = Lady Anastasia
1	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Anastasia	Anastasia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t11:o3:1
# text = the princess
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	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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Helena

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t11:o4:1
# text = Helena
1	Helena	helena	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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