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title: Bro, what does the King say he'll do next? — Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what does the King say he'll do next? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1491 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three horses caught and a knight on the glass hill» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 10 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three ho…

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Bro, what does the King say he'll do next?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** King · **What happens:** do, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1491 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three horses caught and a knight on the glass hill» 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/1491-pg503-part78/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1491-pg503-part78:t10:1
# text = Bro, what does the King say he'll do next?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	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	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	next	next	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  |  |  |  |  | Bro *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | future | King |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Let the riding start again tomorrow with all the knights who came

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1491-pg503-part78:t10:o1:1
# text = Let the riding start again tomorrow with all the knights who came
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the riding |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | infinitive | the riding *not said here* |  |  |  | again; tomorrow | with all knights | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with knight=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **come** | past | all knights |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Start the riding over tomorrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1491-pg503-part78:t10:o2:1
# text = Start the riding over tomorrow
1	Start	start	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | imperative | you *not said here* | the riding |  |  | tomorrow |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riding=Eventuality |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Let the riding start again tomorrow and send home all the failed riders today

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1491-pg503-part78:t10:o3:1
# text = Let the riding start again tomorrow and send home all the failed riders today
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	failed	fail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	riders	rider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
14	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the riding |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | infinitive | the riding *not said here* |  |  |  | again; tomorrow |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **send** | infinitive | the riding *not said here* | all failed riders |  |  | today | home *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rider=Theme |
| 4 | **fail** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Let the riding start again tomorrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1491-pg503-part78:t10:o4:1
# text = Let the riding start again tomorrow
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the riding |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | infinitive | the riding *not said here* |  |  |  | again; tomorrow |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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