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title: Eh, what were the king's servants tied up with, like, pure bound? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh, what were the king's servants tied up with, like, pure bound? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re…

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Eh, what were the king's servants tied up with, like, pure bound?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** servants · **What happens:** be, tie up · **To what, where:** servants

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» 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/1290-pg3454-part15/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t1:1
# text = Eh, what were the king's servants tied up with, like, pure bound?
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	conj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
9	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the king's servants |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tie up** | participle |  | the king's servants *not said here* |  |  |  | with pure bound | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with bound=Co-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 {#o1}

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strong ropes round their gobs and their hands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t1:o1:1
# text = strong ropes round their gobs and their hands
1	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	gobs	gob	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ropes round their wrists

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t1:o2:1
# text = ropes round their wrists
1	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	round	round	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	wrists	wrist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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cloths round their gobs and their backs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t1:o3:1
# text = cloths round their gobs and their backs
1	cloths	cloth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	round	round	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	gobs	gob	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cloths round their gobs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t1:o4:1
# text = cloths round their gobs
1	cloths	cloth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	round	round	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	gobs	gob	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	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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