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title: Be real, who did the king say the princess liked better? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be real, who did the king say the princess liked better? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 768 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the brothers save the princess and share the reward» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the broth…

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Be real, who did the king say the princess liked better?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, princess · **What happens:** be, say, like · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 768 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the brothers save the princess and share the reward» 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/768-pg2591-part44/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:768-pg2591-part44:t9:1
# text = Be real, who did the king say the princess liked better?
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **like** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot |

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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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Another man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:768-pg2591-part44:t9:o1:1
# text = Another man
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Somebody else

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:768-pg2591-part44:t9:o2:1
# text = Somebody else
1	Somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	else	else	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A stranger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:768-pg2591-part44:t9:o3:1
# text = A stranger
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stranger	stranger	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 {#o4}

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Some other bloke she'd met at the fair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:768-pg2591-part44:t9:o4:1
# text = Some other bloke she'd met at the fair
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past · perfect | she | some other bloke *not said here* |  | the fair |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloke=Co-Agent |

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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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