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title: What did Moti make the officer do, go fetch the king? — Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did Moti make the officer do, go fetch the king? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1301 «Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pony and frightens a king into surrender.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 10 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pon…

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What did Moti make the officer do, go fetch the king?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Moti, officer · **What happens:** make, do, go, fetch · **To what, where:** officer, king

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1301 «Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pony and frightens a king into surrender.» 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/1301-pg3454-part26/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1301-pg3454-part26:t10:1
# text = What did Moti make the officer do, go fetch the king?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Moti	Moti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · do-support | Moti | the officer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive | the officer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **fetch** | infinitive |  | the king |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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}

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Yeah, go and get the king and bring him here quick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1301-pg3454-part26:t10:o1:1
# text = Yeah, go and get the king and bring him here quick
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
12	quick	quick	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the king |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | king | here |  | quick *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, bring the king back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1301-pg3454-part26:t10:o2:1
# text = Yeah, bring the king back
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring back** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | the king |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument king=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, go and fetch the king right now, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1301-pg3454-part26:t10:o3:1
# text = Yeah, go and fetch the king right now, mate
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	right	right	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | mate *vocative* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fetch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the king |  |  | now |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, go fetch the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1301-pg3454-part26:t10:o4:1
# text = Yeah, go fetch the king
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fetch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the king |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |

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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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