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title: Did the old King come back looking like a grandad? — Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the old King come back looking like a grandad? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1414 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's son cures the old King and asks for a ring» 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 11 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's s…

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Did the old King come back looking like a grandad?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old King · **What happens:** come back, look

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1414 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's son cures the old King and asks for a ring» 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/1414-pg503-part1/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1414-pg503-part1:t11:1
# text = Did the old King come back looking like a grandad?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past · do-support | the old King |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | the old King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a grandad | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he was young again, like twenty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1414-pg503-part1:t11:o1:1
# text = Nah, he was young again, like twenty
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  | again | like twenty; young *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he looked like a grandad still, but with a bit more energy about him

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1414-pg503-part1:t11:o2:1
# text = Yeah, he looked like a grandad still, but with a bit more energy about him
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | he |  |  |  | still | like a grandad | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, grey and old

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1414-pg503-part1:t11:o3:1
# text = Yeah, grey and old
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he was young again, like twenty, with a full head of hair and no wrinkles

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1414-pg503-part1:t11:o4:1
# text = Nah, he was young again, like twenty, with a full head of hair and no wrinkles
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	wrinkles	wrinkle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  | again | like twenty; young *property* | tree rules |

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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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