--- title: Innit weird, the king's sword was the price, right? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling… · tree and pragmatics description: Innit weird, the king's sword was the price, right? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1008 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219: John meets the princess and sees the garden of dead suitors» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1008-pg27200-part219/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1008-pg27200-part219/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219… Innit weird, the king's sword was the price, right? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sword · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** weird price This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1008 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219: John meets the princess and sees the garden of dead suitors» 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/1008-pg27200-part219/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t6:1 # text = Innit weird, the king's sword was the price, right? 1 Innit Innit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 weird weird ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 right right INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the king's sword | the weird price | | | | | tree rules | 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} The showman's old leather belt ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t6:o1:1 # text = The showman's old leather belt 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 showman showman NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 leather leather NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The coins ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t6:o2:1 # text = The coins 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The sword the showman wore ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t6:o3:1 # text = The sword the showman wore 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 showman showman NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wear** | past | the sword and the showman | | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} The sword the showman wore at his side and the king's ring ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t6:o4:1 # text = The sword the showman wore at his side and the king's ring 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 showman showman NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wear** | past | the sword | | | showman's side | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at side=Source | **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. 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