--- title: which one's the king that nicked the wife, innit? — Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40… · tree and pragmatics description: which one's the king that nicked the wife, innit? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1072 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his servant reach a noisy feast in Leinster» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1072-pg2892-part40/t3/) [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/) / [Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1072-pg2892-part40/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his… which one's the king that nicked the wife, innit? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** one, king · **What happens:** be, nick, innit · **To what, where:** king, wife This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1072 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his servant reach a noisy feast in Leinster» 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/1072-pg2892-part40/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t3:1 # text = which one's the king that nicked the wife, innit? 1 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 nicked nick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 innit innit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | which one | the king | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **nick** | past | the king | the wife | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | | 3 | **innit** | infinitive | | | | | | | 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 {#o1} the King of Ulster ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t3:o1:1 # text = the King of Ulster 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ulster Ulster PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} the King of Leinster ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t3:o2:1 # text = the King of Leinster 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Leinster Leinster PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the King of Munster ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t3:o3:1 # text = the King of Munster 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Munster Munster PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} the King of Leinster who took the wife ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t3:o4:1 # text = the King of Leinster who took the wife 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Leinster Leinster PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the King of Leinster | | the wife | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | **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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