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title: bro, why did the king call her "Becfola the Dowerless"? — Crock of Gold, The Wooing of Becfola,… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, why did the king call her "Becfola the Dowerless"? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1051 «Crock of Gold, The Wooing of Becfola, part 19: the High King asks a silent lady in a chariot to marry him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 2 · ★ · Crock of Gold, The Wooing of Becfola, part 19: the High Ki…

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bro, why did the king call her "Becfola the Dowerless"?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** her · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1051 «Crock of Gold, The Wooing of Becfola, part 19: the High King asks a silent lady in a chariot to marry him» 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/1051-pg2892-part19/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1051-pg2892-part19:t2:1
# text = bro, why did the king call her "Becfola the Dowerless"?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Becfola	Becfola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Dowerless	Dowerless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · do-support | the king |  | her *= she* |  |  | bro *vocative* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

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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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cos she was a stranger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1051-pg2892-part19:t2:o1:1
# text = cos she was a stranger
1	cos	cos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | cos | a stranger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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cos she turned up with nothing at all from her da

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1051-pg2892-part19:t2:o2:1
# text = cos she turned up with nothing at all from her da
1	cos	cos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	da	da	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn up** | past | cos |  |  | cos's da |  | with nothing | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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cos she brought no dowry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1051-pg2892-part19:t2:o3:1
# text = cos she brought no dowry
1	cos	cos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	dowry	dowry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | cos | no dowry |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dowry=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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cos her family never sent a single gift over the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1051-pg2892-part19:t2:o4:1
# text = cos her family never sent a single gift over the river
1	cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **send** | past | her family | a single gift |  | the river |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=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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