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title: sus, what did the king threaten jose with? — Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse,… · tree and pragmatics
description: sus, what did the king threaten jose with? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1186 «Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays debts, rises at court, and is sent to find the princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays d…

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sus, what did the king threaten jose with?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** threaten · **To what, where:** sus

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1186 «Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays debts, rises at court, and is sent to find 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/1186-pg3027-part52/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t9:1
# text = sus, what did the king threaten jose with?
1	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	threaten	threaten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
8	jose	Jose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **threaten** | past · do-support | the king | sus |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer jose=Result |

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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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being beaten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t9:o1:1
# text = being beaten
1	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V» |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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losing his life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t9:o2:1
# text = losing his life
1	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | gerund |  | his life |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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exile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t9:o3:1
# text = exile
1	exile	exile	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}

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being drowned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t9:o4:1
# text = being drowned
1	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |

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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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