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title: Ngl, what story did the princess keep telling? — Iktomi tales, The Big Red Eagle: the a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what story did the princess keep telling? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1271 «Iktomi tales, The Big Red Eagle: the avenger shoots the red eagle and wins the princess» 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 
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# Test 13 · ★ · Iktomi tales, The Big Red Eagle: the avenger shoots the re…

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Ngl, what story did the princess keep telling?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** keep, tell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1271 «Iktomi tales, The Big Red Eagle: the avenger shoots the red eagle and wins the princess» 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/1271-pg338-part8/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1271-pg338-part8:t13:1
# text = Ngl, what story did the princess keep telling?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | Ngl *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 big red eagle one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1271-pg338-part8:t13:o1:1
# text = the big red eagle one
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a sad one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1271-pg338-part8:t13:o2:1
# text = a sad one
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the scary one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1271-pg338-part8:t13:o3:1
# text = the scary one
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the bear story, kinda

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1271-pg338-part8:t13:o4:1
# text = the bear story, kinda
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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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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