--- title: Wot did the hermit reckon he was reading? — Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: t… · tree and pragmatics description: Wot did the hermit reckon he was reading? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1253 «Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: the king's hunt and the hermit's prophecy» 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1253-pg3282-part54/t8/) [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/) / [Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1253-pg3282-part54/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: the king's hunt and t… Wot did the hermit reckon he was reading? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Wot, hermit · **What happens:** do, reckon, read · **To what, where:** hermit This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1253 «Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: the king's hunt and the hermit's prophecy» 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/1253-pg3282-part54/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1253-pg3282-part54:t8:1 # text = Wot did the hermit reckon he was reading? 1 Wot Wot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 hermit hermit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 reckon reckon VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Wot | the hermit | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hermit=Eventuality | | 2 | **reckon** | infinitive | the hermit *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **read** | past · progressive | Wot | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} stars ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1253-pg3282-part54:t8:o1:1 # text = stars 1 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} men's destinies ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1253-pg3282-part54:t8:o2:1 # text = men's destinies 1 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 destinies destiny NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} kings ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1253-pg3282-part54:t8:o3:1 # text = kings 1 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} people's fates ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1253-pg3282-part54:t8:o4:1 # text = people's fates 1 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 fates fate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fate** | | people | | | | | | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent | **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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