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title: Bro, what did the sultan need, like, to get better? — Indian Fairy Tales, The Heart of a Mon… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did the sultan need, like, to get better? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1283 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Heart of a Monkey, part 1: a clever monkey tricks a shark into carrying him back to his tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 7 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Heart of a Monkey, part 1: a cleve…

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Bro, what did the sultan need, like, to get better?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** do, need, get · **To what, where:** sultan

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1283 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Heart of a Monkey, part 1: a clever monkey tricks a shark into carrying him back to his tree» 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/1283-pg3454-part8/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1283-pg3454-part8:t7:1
# text = Bro, what did the sultan need, like, to get better?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Bro | the sultan |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Eventuality |
| 2 | **need** | present | Bro |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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a monkey's heart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1283-pg3454-part8:t7:o1:1
# text = a monkey's heart
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	heart	heart	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 jogi's potion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1283-pg3454-part8:t7:o2:1
# text = a jogi's potion
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jogi	jogi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	potion	potion	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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fish soup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1283-pg3454-part8:t7:o3:1
# text = fish soup
1	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	soup	soup	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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a cure from the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1283-pg3454-part8:t7:o4:1
# text = a cure from the sea
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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