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title: Lowkey, what did Snati tell Ring to ask the King for? — Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: bar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lowkey, what did Snati tell Ring to ask the King for? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1731 «Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, the Giant's service, the wild oxen» 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 13 · ★ · Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, th…

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Lowkey, what did Snati tell Ring to ask the King for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lowkey, Ring · **What happens:** tell, ask · **To what, where:** Ring, King · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1731 «Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, the Giant's service, the wild oxen» 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/1731-pg640-part55/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t13:1
# text = Lowkey, what did Snati tell Ring to ask the King for?
1	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Snati	Snati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Lowkey | Ring |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ring *not said here* |  | the King |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |

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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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an axe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t13:o1:1
# text = an axe
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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new boots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t13:o2:1
# text = new boots
1	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a saw

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t13:o3:1
# text = a saw
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	saw	saw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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two axes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t13:o4:1
# text = two axes
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	axes	ax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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