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title: so what did he munch on before he crashed, fr? — Persian Tales, Prince Almas, part 6: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what did he munch on before he crashed, fr? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1205 «Persian Tales, Prince Almas, part 6: the prince kills the negro guards and reaches the Simurgh's garden» 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 12 · ★ · Persian Tales, Prince Almas, part 6: the prince kills the…

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so what did he munch on before he crashed, fr?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** munch, crash · **To what, where:** fr

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1205 «Persian Tales, Prince Almas, part 6: the prince kills the negro guards and reaches the Simurgh's garden» 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/1205-pg3282-part6/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1205-pg3282-part6:t12:1
# text = so what did he munch on before he crashed, fr?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	munch	munch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	crashed	crash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **munch** | past · do-support | he | fr |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 2 | **crash** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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dates from a tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1205-pg3282-part6:t12:o1:1
# text = dates from a tree
1	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
roast lamb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1205-pg3282-part6:t12:o2:1
# text = roast lamb
1	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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food Jamila had given him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1205-pg3282-part6:t12:o3:1
# text = food Jamila had given him
1	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Jamila	Jamila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | food | Jamila |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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fish from the stream

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1205-pg3282-part6:t12:o4:1
# text = fish from the stream
1	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stream	stream	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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