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title: Whit did the raven ask fur as thanks? — Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit did the raven ask fur as thanks? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1143 «Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride, the spells break, and the false brothers are shamed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride…

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Whit did the raven ask fur as thanks?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit · **What happens:** do, ask · **To what, where:** raven, fur

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1143 «Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride, the spells break, and the false brothers are shamed» 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/1143-pg3027-part9/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t4:1
# text = Whit did the raven ask fur as thanks?
1	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Whit | the raven |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Whit *not said here* | fur |  |  |  | as thanks | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fur=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t4:o1:1
# text = the cap
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the silver cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t4:o2:1
# text = the silver cap
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t4:o3:1
# text = gold
1	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the gold cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t4:o4:1
# text = the gold cap
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cap	cap	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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