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title: What's the king's big mission, like, in the next story? — Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beaut… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's the king's big mission, like, in the next story? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1640 «Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: the servant finds soft hands, and the old bride is flung out» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 9 · ★ · Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: t…

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What's the king's big mission, like, in the next story?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** big mission

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1640 «Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: the servant finds soft hands, and the old bride is flung out» 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/1640-pg5615-part29/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t9:1
# text = What's the king's big mission, like, in the next story?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mission	mission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the king's big mission and the next story |  |  |  |  | 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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To marry the princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t9:o1:1
# text = To marry the princess
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	marry	marry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | to-infinitive |  | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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To find a beautiful wife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t9:o2:1
# text = To find a beautiful wife
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | a beautiful wife |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To travel far and find a beautiful wife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t9:o3:1
# text = To travel far and find a beautiful wife
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	travel	travel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | infinitive |  | a beautiful wife |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To search the whole kingdom for a bride

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t9:o4:1
# text = To search the whole kingdom for a bride
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	search	search	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** | to-infinitive |  | the whole kingdom |  |  |  | for a bride | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=Location for bride=Theme |

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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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