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title: Dude, what did the otter promise the king, like? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, what did the otter promise the king, like? Test 6 · ★ 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 question and of each o
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# Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re…

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Dude, what did the otter promise the king, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** otter · **What happens:** promise · **To what, where:** Dude, king

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t6:1
# text = Dude, what did the otter promise the king, like?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	otter	otter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · do-support | the otter | Dude | the king |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal king=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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
his wife back by noon tomorrow, no question

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t6:o1:1
# text = his wife back by noon tomorrow, no question
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
his horses by dusk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t6:o2:1
# text = his horses by dusk
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dusk	dusk	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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wife and horses back by noon tomorrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t6:o3:1
# text = wife and horses back by noon tomorrow
1	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
wife by noon tomorrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t6:o4:1
# text = wife by noon tomorrow
1	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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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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