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title: How did the king figure out what went down? — Fairy Book, The Red Knight: the prince… · tree and pragmatics
description: How did the king figure out what went down? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1230 «Fairy Book, The Red Knight: the prince proves his deeds and the wicked knight is hanged» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Red Knight: the prince proves his deeds an…

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How did the king figure out what went down?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** figure out, go down

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1230 «Fairy Book, The Red Knight: the prince proves his deeds and the wicked knight is hanged» 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/1230-pg3282-part31/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1230-pg3282-part31:t8:1
# text = How did the king figure out what went down?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	figure	figure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **figure out** | past · do-support | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go down** | past |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The princess spilled the whole tea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1230-pg3282-part31:t8:o1:1
# text = The princess spilled the whole tea
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spilled	spill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spill** | past | the princess | the whole tea |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tea=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The mermaid texted him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1230-pg3282-part31:t8:o2:1
# text = The mermaid texted him
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	texted	text	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **text** | past | the mermaid | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A bee buzzed in his ear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1230-pg3282-part31:t8:o3:1
# text = A bee buzzed in his ear
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	buzzed	buzz	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buzz** | participle |  | a bee *not said here* |  | bee's ear |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Red Knight confessed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1230-pg3282-part31:t8:o4:1
# text = The Red Knight confessed
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
3	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	confessed	confess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confess** | past | the Red Knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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