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title: why'd the ambassadors even need magic? — Myths and Legends of China, The Empres… · tree and pragmatics
description: why'd the ambassadors even need magic? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1387 «Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and Moon come back to light» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and…

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why'd the ambassadors even need magic?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ambassadors · **What happens:** need · **To what, where:** magic

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1387 «Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and Moon come back to light» 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/1387-pg4018-part47/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t10:1
# text = why'd the ambassadors even need magic?
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl:relcl	_	_
7	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | the ambassadors | magic |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot magic=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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Walking would take so long that the Empress and everyone else would already be dead

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t10:o1:1
# text = Walking would take so long that the Empress and everyone else would already be dead
1	Walking	walking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Empress	Empress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	conj	_	_
11	else	else	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	already	already	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | would | Walking |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would | the Empress |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Walking would take so long they'd be dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t10:o2:1
# text = Walking would take so long they'd be dead
1	Walking	walking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | would | Walking |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would | they |  |  |  |  | dead, long *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The roads were blocked by old rocks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t10:o3:1
# text = The roads were blocked by old rocks
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	blocked	block	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **block** | past · passive | old rocks | the roads |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Walking would take so long that they would all be dead long before reaching the Sun

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t10:o4:1
# text = Walking would take so long that they would all be dead long before reaching the Sun
1	Walking	walking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
12	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | would | Walking |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would | they |  |  |  |  | all, dead *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **reach** | gerund | Walking *not said here* | the Sun |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sun=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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