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title: What did the king require in exchange for the palace hospitality? — Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the king require in exchange for the palace hospitality? Exam question 2 of lesson 1286 «Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a hungry couple is given a palace, then loses it by lifting a lid» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Exam question 2 · Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a…

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What did the king require in exchange for the palace hospitality?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** do, require · **To what, where:** exchange

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1286 «Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a hungry couple is given a palace, then loses it by lifting a lid» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1286-pg3454-part11/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:e2:1
# text = What did the king require in exchange for the palace hospitality?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	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	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	require	require	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **require** | present | the king |  |  | exchange for the palace hospitality |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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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Strict obedience to his commands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:e2:o1:1
# text = Strict obedience to his commands
1	Strict	strict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	obedience	obedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	commands	command	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Complete and unquestioning obedience to all his royal commands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:e2:o2:1
# text = Complete and unquestioning obedience to all his royal commands
1	Complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	unquestioning	unquestion	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	obedience	obedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	commands	command	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unquestion** | gerund |  | obedience |  |  |  | to his royal commands | tree rules |
| 2 | **command** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Careful service to the throne

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:e2:o3:1
# text = Careful service to the throne
1	Careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Strict obedience to his every command and wish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:e2:o4:1
# text = Strict obedience to his every command and wish
1	Strict	strict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	obedience	obedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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