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title: Real talk, what did the King think Martin had done? — Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Widow'… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, what did the King think Martin had done? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1719 «Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Widow's Son, part 43: the King jails Martin, and his animal friends steal rolls to save him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 11 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Widow's Son, part 43: the…

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Real talk, what did the King think Martin had done?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** King, Martin · **What happens:** think, do · **To what, where:** Real talk · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1719 «Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Widow's Son, part 43: the King jails Martin, and his animal friends steal rolls to save him» 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/1719-pg640-part43/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1719-pg640-part43:t11:1
# text = Real talk, what did the King think Martin had done?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
9	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | the King | Real talk |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | Martin |  |  |  |  |  | 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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Lying about the golden ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1719-pg640-part43:t11:o1:1
# text = Lying about the golden ring
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about the golden ring | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about ring=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Witchcraft and deceiving him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1719-pg640-part43:t11:o2:1
# text = Witchcraft and deceiving him
1	Witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	deceiving	deceive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deceive** | gerund |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Stealing gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1719-pg640-part43:t11:o3:1
# text = Stealing gold
1	Stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | gerund |  | gold |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Theft of rolls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1719-pg640-part43:t11:o4:1
# text = Theft of rolls
1	Theft	theft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	rolls	roll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	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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