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title: Whose boy was the princess promised to marry, mate? — Gutenberg 3454 tales, The Jogi's Punis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whose boy was the princess promised to marry, mate? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1281 «Gutenberg 3454 tales, The Jogi's Punishment, part 6: the prince learns his bride's secret, and the rajah's daughter flees a jogi's love» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Test 8 · ★ · Gutenberg 3454 tales, The Jogi's Punishment, part 6: the p…

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Whose boy was the princess promised to marry, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** be, promise, marry · **To what, where:** princess

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1281 «Gutenberg 3454 tales, The Jogi's Punishment, part 6: the prince learns his bride's secret, and the rajah's daughter flees a jogi's love» 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/1281-pg3454-part6/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1281-pg3454-part6:t8:1
# text = Whose boy was the princess promised to marry, mate?
1	Whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | boy and the princess *not said here* | the princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | boy and the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | boy and the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | mate *vocative* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The son of the rajah of Dilaram

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1281-pg3454-part6:t8:o1:1
# text = The son of the rajah of Dilaram
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rajah	rajah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Dilaram	Dilaram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The son of a wealthy merchant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1281-pg3454-part6:t8:o2:1
# text = The son of a wealthy merchant
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A rajah's boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1281-pg3454-part6:t8:o3:1
# text = A rajah's boy
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rajah	rajah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	boy	boy	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 son of the king of Granada

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1281-pg3454-part6:t8:o4:1
# text = The son of the king of Granada
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Granada	Granada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	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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