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title: what did the smith ask for before a third shift, innit? — Grimm's Tales, Christian the Smith: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the smith ask for before a third shift, innit? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1623 «Grimm's Tales, Christian the Smith: the smith guards the church and frees the princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Christian the Smith: the smith guards the c…

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what did the smith ask for before a third shift, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** smith · **What happens:** ask, innit

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1623 «Grimm's Tales, Christian the Smith: the smith guards the church and frees the princess» 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/1623-pg5615-part12/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1623-pg5615-part12:t4:1
# text = what did the smith ask for before a third shift, innit?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	shift	shift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · do-support | the smith |  |  |  |  | for a third shift | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive | the smith *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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a promise the king would pardon every sentry who ran off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1623-pg5615-part12:t4:o1:1
# text = a promise the king would pardon every sentry who ran off
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	pardon	pardon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	sentry	sentry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pardon** | would | a promise | every sentry |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentry=Theme |
| 2 | **run off** | past | every sentry |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the princess, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1623-pg5615-part12:t4:o2:1
# text = the princess, innit
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
half the kingdom, no less

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1623-pg5615-part12:t4:o3:1
# text = half the kingdom, no less
1	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	no	no	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a pot of gold coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1623-pg5615-part12:t4:o4:1
# text = a pot of gold coins
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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