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title: Wait, what does the knight totally want? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerg… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what does the knight totally want? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1318 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the stones crush the sorcerer, and Peronnik hears of the magic basin» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the st…

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Wait, what does the knight totally want?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, knight · **What happens:** wait, do, want · **To what, where:** knight

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1318 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the stones crush the sorcerer, and Peronnik hears of the magic basin» 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/1318-pg3454-part43/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1318-pg3454-part43:t5:1
# text = Wait, what does the knight totally want?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present |  | the knight |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Eventuality |
| 3 | **want** | infinitive | the knight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | totally *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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the gold basin and diamond lance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1318-pg3454-part43:t5:o1:1
# text = the gold basin and diamond lance
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the holy relic and iron lance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1318-pg3454-part43:t5:o2:1
# text = the holy relic and iron lance
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	relic	relic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1318-pg3454-part43:t5:o3:1
# text = the gold
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	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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the silver cup and ruby sword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1318-pg3454-part43:t5:o4:1
# text = the silver cup and ruby sword
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	ruby	ruby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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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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