--- title: bro, what did the old king taste that was like wormwood? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life… · tree and pragmatics description: bro, what did the old king taste that was like wormwood? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 117 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Prince is betrayed, spared, and forgiven» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/117-pg11027-part20/t12/) [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/) / [Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/117-pg11027-part20/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Princ… bro, what did the old king taste that was like wormwood? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old king taste · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** old king taste This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 117 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Prince is betrayed, spared, and forgiven» 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/117-pg11027-part20/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t12:1 # text = bro, what did the old king taste that was like wormwood? 1 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 vocative _ 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 8 det _ _ 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 taste taste NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 wormwood wormwood NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | the old king taste | | | | bro *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | past | the old king taste | | | | | like wormwood | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} the salt water ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t12:o1:1 # text = the salt water 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} the bitter water ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t12:o2:1 # text = the bitter water 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the bitter water from the cup ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t12:o3:1 # text = the bitter water from the cup 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the bitter water the Prince brought home ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t12:o4:1 # text = the bitter water the Prince brought home 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 6 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 home home ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | past | the bitter water | | | | | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | **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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