--- title: Did the king get off scot-free for being mean to his kid? — Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill… · tree and pragmatics description: Did the king get off scot-free for being mean to his kid? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1199 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a ring, the princess is walled up, and the hill-man dies under a stone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1199-pg3027-part65/t10/) [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/) / [Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1199-pg3027-part65/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a… Did the king get off scot-free for being mean to his kid? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** do, get off, be This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1199 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a ring, the princess is walled up, and the hill-man dies under a stone» 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/1199-pg3027-part65/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1199-pg3027-part65:t10:1 # text = Did the king get off scot-free for being mean to his kid? 1 Did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 5 off off ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 scot scot NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 9 for for SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 cop _ _ 11 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **get off** | present | the king | | | | | free *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | gerund | the king *not said here* | | | | | to king's kid; mean *property* | 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 {#o1} Nah, scolded ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1199-pg3027-part65:t10:o1:1 # text = Nah, scolded 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 scolded scold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scold** | participle | | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Nah, he got told off ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1199-pg3027-part65:t10:o2:1 # text = Nah, he got told off 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 off off ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell off** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | he | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} Nah, he got sent away ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1199-pg3027-part65:t10:o3:1 # text = Nah, he got sent away 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send away** | past · passive | | he | | | | away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Yeah, free ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1199-pg3027-part65:t10:o4:1 # text = Yeah, free 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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