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title: why'd so many rich dudes keep searching the river? — Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper,… · tree and pragmatics
description: why'd so many rich dudes keep searching the river? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1196 «Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king loses his slipper and a youth offers a cure» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 8 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king lo…

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why'd so many rich dudes keep searching the river?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many rich dudes · **What happens:** keep, search · **To what, where:** river

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1196 «Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king loses his slipper and a youth offers a cure» 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/1196-pg3027-part62/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:t8:1
# text = why'd so many rich dudes keep searching the river?
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dudes	dude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	searching	search	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | would | many rich dudes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **search** | gerund | many rich dudes *not said here* | the river |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent river=Location |

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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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for the gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:t8:o1:1
# text = for the gold
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
they all wanted the princess and crown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:t8:o2:1
# text = they all wanted the princess and crown
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	det	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | they | the princess and crown |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot princess=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the king was paying them handsomely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:t8:o3:1
# text = the king was paying them handsomely
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past · progressive | the king | them *= they* |  |  |  | handsomely *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
they were bored

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:t8:o4:1
# text = they were bored
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | they |  |  |  |  | bored *property* | tree rules |

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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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