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title: fam, what did the princess want in a husband? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: fam, what did the princess want in a husband? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 981 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda runs from the garden, hears the flowers' tales, and meets a crow» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda ru…

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fam, what did the princess want in a husband?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fam · **What happens:** do, want · **To what, where:** princess

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 981 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda runs from the garden, hears the flowers' tales, and meets a crow» 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/981-pg27200-part192/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:t5:1
# text = fam, what did the princess want in a husband?
1	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | fam | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality |
| 2 | **want** | present | fam |  |  |  |  | in a husband | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: 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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someone who could sing and dance well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:t5:o1:1
# text = someone who could sing and dance well
1	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **dance** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a man who never spoke at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:t5:o2:1
# text = a man who never spoke at all
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | past | a man |  |  | all |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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knows what to say

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:t5:o3:1
# text = knows what to say
1	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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a gentle voice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:t5:o4:1
# text = a gentle voice
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	voice	voice	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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