--- title: Innit, what did the king's letter tell the queen to do? — Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, pa… · tree and pragmatics description: Innit, what did the king's letter tell the queen to do? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1761 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is taken prisoner and his queen sets out disguised as a boy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1761-pg641-part12/t10/) [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/) / [Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1761-pg641-part12/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is take… Innit, what did the king's letter tell the queen to do? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Innit, letter, king · **What happens:** do, tell, letter · **To what, where:** queen · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1761 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is taken prisoner and his queen sets out disguised as a boy» 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/1761-pg641-part12/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t10:1 # text = Innit, what did the king's letter tell the queen to do? 1 Innit Innit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Innit | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the king's letter | | the queen | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **letter** | | the king | | | | | | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} sell horses ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t10:o1:1 # text = sell horses 1 sell sell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sell** | imperative | you *not said here* | horses | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} sell gold ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t10:o2:1 # text = sell gold 1 sell sell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sell** | imperative | you *not said here* | gold | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} sell the castles ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t10:o3:1 # text = sell the castles 1 sell sell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 castles castle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sell** | imperative | you *not said here* | the castles | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} sell her jewels ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t10:o4:1 # text = sell her jewels 1 sell sell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 jewels jewel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sell** | imperative | you *not said here* | her jewels | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=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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