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title: what did the king reckon a ruler should never do? — Crock of Gold, The Wooing of Becfola,… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the king reckon a ruler should never do? Test 8 · ★ 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 each op
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# Test 8 · ★ · Crock of Gold, The Wooing of Becfola, part 19: the High Ki…

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what did the king reckon a ruler should never do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** king, ruler · **What happens:** reckon, not do

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1051-pg2892-part19:t8:1
# text = what did the king reckon a ruler should never do?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past · do-support | the king |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **do** | should | a ruler |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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think with the nose and eyebrows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1051-pg2892-part19:t8:o1:1
# text = think with the nose and eyebrows
1	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the nose and eyebrows | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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think with the heart and the hands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1051-pg2892-part19:t8:o2:1
# text = think with the heart and the hands
1	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the heart and the hands | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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decide everything by the flight of birds and omens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1051-pg2892-part19:t8:o3:1
# text = decide everything by the flight of birds and omens
1	decide	decide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	1	obj	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	omens	omen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | imperative | you *not said here* | everything |  |  |  | by the flight of birds and omens | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent everything=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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listen to every rumour and every whisper of the court

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1051-pg2892-part19:t8:o4:1
# text = listen to every rumour and every whisper of the court
1	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	rumour	rumour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	whisper	whisper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to every rumour and every whisper of the court | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to rumour=Theme |
| 2 | **whisper** |  |  | the court |  |  |  |  | nom whisper «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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