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title: Oi, what did the king actually want the lad to build, like? — Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, what did the king actually want the lad to build, like? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1157 «Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of ice is raised, and the ogre tricks the princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of…

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Oi, what did the king actually want the lad to build, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, want, build · **To what, where:** king, lad

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1157 «Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of ice is raised, and the ogre tricks the princess» 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/1157-pg3027-part23/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t1:1
# text = Oi, what did the king actually want the lad to build, like?
1	Oi	oi	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	8	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the king |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality |
| 2 | **want** | present |  | the lad |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lad=Theme |
| 3 | **build** | to-infinitive |  | the lad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a palace of ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t1:o1:1
# text = a palace of ice
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a tower of glass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t1:o2:1
# text = a tower of glass
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a bridge of wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t1:o3:1
# text = a bridge of wood
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a great palace of ice and stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t1:o4:1
# text = a great palace of ice and stone
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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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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