--- title: Bet, what was the Governor's new test? — Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Bet, what was the Governor's new test? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1521-pg540-part18/t13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1521-pg540-part18/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tr… Bet, what was the Governor's new test? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bet · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** new test This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» 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/1521-pg540-part18/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t13:1 # text = Bet, what was the Governor's new test? 1 Bet bet NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Governor Governor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Bet and the Governor's new test | the Governor's new test | | | | | tree rules | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} steal twelve horses ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t13:o1:1 # text = steal twelve horses 1 steal steal VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **steal** | present | | twelve horses | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} rob the stable boys ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t13:o2:1 # text = rob the stable boys 1 rob rob VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 stable stable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rob** | imperative | you *not said here* | the stable boys | | | | | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Source | ### Option 3 {#o3} steal a horse ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t13:o3:1 # text = steal a horse 1 steal steal VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **steal** | imperative | you *not said here* | a horse | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} steal the gold ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t13:o4:1 # text = steal the gold 1 steal steal VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **steal** | imperative | you *not said here* | the gold | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme | **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. 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