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title: Wait, what did the prince rip off Peppina's head? — Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Liz… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what did the prince rip off Peppina's head? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 720 «Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Lizina wins gold and a star, but greedy Peppina gets a donkey's tail» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 7 · ★ · Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Lizina wins gold and a…

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Wait, what did the prince rip off Peppina's head?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, prince · **What happens:** wait, rip off · **To what, where:** head

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 720 «Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Lizina wins gold and a star, but greedy Peppina gets a donkey's tail» 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/720-pg2435-part60/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:t7:1
# text = Wait, what did the prince rip off Peppina's head?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rip	rip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	Peppina	Peppina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rip off** | past · do-support | the prince | Peppina's head |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Patient head=Result |

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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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the scarf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:t7:o1:1
# text = the scarf
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scarf	scarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:t7:o2:1
# text = a hat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the veil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:t7:o3:1
# text = the veil
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	veil	veil	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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the bonnet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:t7:o4:1
# text = the bonnet
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bonnet	bonnet	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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