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title: how'd the prince sneak back into the court? — Grimm, The Golden Bird, part 2: brothe… · tree and pragmatics
description: how'd the prince sneak back into the court? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 726 «Grimm, The Golden Bird, part 2: brothers steal the prize, Hans sets off home» 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 right.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Grimm, The Golden Bird, part 2: brothers steal the prize,…

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how'd the prince sneak back into the court?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** sneak back · **To what, where:** court

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 726 «Grimm, The Golden Bird, part 2: brothers steal the prize, Hans sets off home» 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/726-pg2591-part2/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:726-pg2591-part2:t7:1
# text = how'd the prince sneak back into the court?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sneak	sneak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sneak back** | infinitive | the prince |  |  | the court |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into court=Destination |

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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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Dressed as a servant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:726-pg2591-part2:t7:o1:1
# text = Dressed as a servant
1	Dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as a servant | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Through the back gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:726-pg2591-part2:t7:o2:1
# text = Through the back gate
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Disguised as a poor man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:726-pg2591-part2:t7:o3:1
# text = Disguised as a poor man
1	Disguised	disguise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disguise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as a poor man | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Disguised as a poor man who had come to beg for bread at the kitchen door

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:726-pg2591-part2:t7:o4:1
# text = Disguised as a poor man who had come to beg for bread at the kitchen door
1	Disguised	disguise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disguise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as a poor man | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect | a poor man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | a poor man *not said here* |  |  | the kitchen door |  | for bread | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for bread=Topic |

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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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