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title: Right, who turned up at the palace door trying to sell the mad jewels? — Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Right, who turned up at the palace door trying to sell the mad jewels? Test 3 · ★ 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 qu
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# Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of…

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Right, who turned up at the palace door trying to sell the mad jewels?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** turn up, try, sell · **To what, where:** palace door, mad jewels

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t3:1
# text = Right, who turned up at the palace door trying to sell the mad jewels?
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn up** | past |  |  |  | the palace door |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location |
| 2 | **try** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sell** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the mad jewels |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=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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a dwarf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t3:o1:1
# text = a dwarf
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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a thief

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t3:o2:1
# text = a thief
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thief	thief	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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the ogre

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t3:o3:1
# text = the ogre
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ogre	ogre	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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a jeweller

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t3:o4:1
# text = a jeweller
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jeweller	jeweller	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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