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title: wait, what did the three kings send for saving them? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what did the three kings send for saving them? Test 13 · ★ 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; Mov
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# Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Princ…

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wait, what did the three kings send for saving them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, three kings · **What happens:** wait, send, save · **To what, where:** kings

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This is test 13 · ★ 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t13:1
# text = wait, what did the three kings send for saving them?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past · do-support | the three kings |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | gerund | the three kings *not said here* | kings *= king* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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wagons full of gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t13:o1:1
# text = wagons full of gold
1	wagons	wagon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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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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horses full of silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t13:o2:1
# text = horses full of silver
1	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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gold coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t13:o3:1
# text = gold coins
1	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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carts of silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t13:o4:1
# text = carts of silver
1	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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