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title: what did the ambassadors call the Sun and Moon? — Myths and Legends of China, The Empres… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the ambassadors call the Sun and Moon? Test 13 · ★ 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 
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# Test 13 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and…

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what did the ambassadors call the Sun and Moon?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ambassadors · **What happens:** do, call · **To what, where:** Sun · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t13:1
# text = what did the ambassadors call the Sun and Moon?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | present | the ambassadors |  | the Sun and Moon |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sun=Recipient |

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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 {#o1}

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The Majesties of Heaven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t13:o1:1
# text = The Majesties of Heaven
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Majesties	majesty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Their Majesties of Dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t13:o2:1
# text = Their Majesties of Dawn
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Majesties	majesty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Dawn	Dawn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Their Majesties of Light, fancy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t13:o3:1
# text = Their Majesties of Light, fancy
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Majesties	majesty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Sun-kings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t13:o4:1
# text = Sun-kings
1	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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