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title: Bro, how did the princes take the town? — Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, how did the princes take the town? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 699 «Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews three robes, Laufer confesses, Blauvor is beheaded» 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 rig
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# Test 11 · ★ · Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews three robes, Laufer…

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Bro, how did the princes take the town?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** princes · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** town

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 699 «Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews three robes, Laufer confesses, Blauvor is beheaded» 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/699-pg2435-part39/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:699-pg2435-part39:t11:1
# text = Bro, how did the princes take the town?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · do-support | the princes | the town |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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by stealth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:699-pg2435-part39:t11:o1:1
# text = by stealth
1	by	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	stealth	stealth	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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by a long siege

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:699-pg2435-part39:t11:o2:1
# text = by a long siege
1	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
with great force

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:699-pg2435-part39:t11:o3:1
# text = with great force
1	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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very suddenly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:699-pg2435-part39:t11:o4:1
# text = very suddenly
1	very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	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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