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title: Lol, what did the King say the Marquis gave him? — Perrault's Tales, Puss in Boots, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what did the King say the Marquis gave him? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1083 «Perrault's Tales, Puss in Boots, part 8: the Cat tricks the King with game, a river rescue and a fine suit, then reaches the Ogre's castle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 13 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Puss in Boots, part 8: the Cat tricks th…

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Lol, what did the King say the Marquis gave him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** King, Marquis · **What happens:** do, say, give · **To what, where:** King · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1083 «Perrault's Tales, Puss in Boots, part 8: the Cat tricks the King with game, a river rescue and a fine suit, then reaches the Ogre's castle» 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/1083-pg29021-part8/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1083-pg29021-part8:t13:1
# text = Lol, what did the King say the Marquis gave him?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Marquis	Marquis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give** | past | the Marquis |  | King |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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Great pleasure at having met such a fine lord

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1083-pg29021-part8:t13:o1:1
# text = Great pleasure at having met such a fine lord
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux	_	_
5	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | gerund · perfect | Great pleasure *not said here* | such fine lord |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Co-Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Much delight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1083-pg29021-part8:t13:o2:1
# text = Much delight
1	Much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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Great pleasure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1083-pg29021-part8:t13:o3:1
# text = Great pleasure
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Great happiness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1083-pg29021-part8:t13:o4:1
# text = Great happiness
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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