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title: Wait, so who is the King actually wanting dead? — Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Mira… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, so who is the King actually wanting dead? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1464 «Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the King orders Miranda killed, and her faithful animals die for her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 1 · ★ · Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the Ki…

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Wait, so who is the King actually wanting dead?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1464 «Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the King orders Miranda killed, and her faithful animals die for her» 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/1464-pg503-part51/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1464-pg503-part51:t1:1
# text = Wait, so who is the King actually wanting dead?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	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 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | actually, dead, want *property* | tree rules |

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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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his nephew Grabugeon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1464-pg503-part51:t1:o1:1
# text = his nephew Grabugeon
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Grabugeon	Grabugeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the Captain of the Guard himself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1464-pg503-part51:t1:o2:1
# text = the Captain of the Guard himself
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Guard	Guard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	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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his daughter Miranda

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1464-pg503-part51:t1:o3:1
# text = his daughter Miranda
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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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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his youngest daughter Patypata

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1464-pg503-part51:t1:o4:1
# text = his youngest daughter Patypata
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Patypata	Patypata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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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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