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title: How'd the king pick who gets the throne, lol? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Cou… · tree and pragmatics
description: How'd the king pick who gets the throne, lol? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 104 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bride pours cold fish over him and he learns to shiver» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bri…

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How'd the king pick who gets the throne, lol?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** king pick · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** throne

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 104 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bride pours cold fish over him and he learns to shiver» 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/104-pg11027-part7/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t12:1
# text = How'd the king pick who gets the throne, lol?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pick	pick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | the king pick | the throne |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer throne=Stimulus |

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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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by a test of strength

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t12:o1:1
# text = by a test of strength
1	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **test** |  |  | strength |  |  |  |  | nom test «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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

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blowing three feathers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t12:o2:1
# text = blowing three feathers
1	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | gerund |  | three feathers |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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by sending each son to bring back a horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t12:o3:1
# text = by sending each son to bring back a horse
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | gerund |  | each son |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
| 2 | **bring back** | to-infinitive |  |  | a horse |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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by having them each shoot an arrow up high

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t12:o4:1
# text = by having them each shoot an arrow up high
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	shoot	shoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	arrow	arrow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrow up** | present |  |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |

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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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