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title: Wicked, what are the princesses' shoes like by morning? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wicked, what are the princesses' shoes like by morning? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 733 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part 9: the soldier wins a princess, and the fisherman's wife starts asking for more» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part 9: t…

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Wicked, what are the princesses' shoes like by morning?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** shoes · **What happens:** be

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 733 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part 9: the soldier wins a princess, and the fisherman's wife starts asking for more» 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/733-pg2591-part9/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:733-pg2591-part9:t12:1
# text = Wicked, what are the princesses' shoes like by morning?
1	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the princesses's shoes like morning |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Clean and shiny

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:733-pg2591-part9:t12:o1:1
# text = Clean and shiny
1	Clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Dirty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:733-pg2591-part9:t12:o2:1
# text = Dirty
1	Dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Worn to bits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:733-pg2591-part9:t12:o3:1
# text = Worn to bits
1	Worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to bits | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Torn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:733-pg2591-part9:t12:o4:1
# text = Torn
1	Torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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