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title: Mental, how did the prisoners have to work? — Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mental, how did the prisoners have to work? Test 12 · ★ 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 and of each op
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# Test 12 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is take…

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Mental, how did the prisoners have to work?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** prisoners · **What happens:** have, work

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t12:1
# text = Mental, how did the prisoners have to work?
1	Mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · do-support | the prisoners |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | the prisoners *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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chained to carts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t12:o1:1
# text = chained to carts
1	chained	chain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to carts | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to cart=Co-Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
made to carry stones up the mountain in iron chains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t12:o2:1
# text = made to carry stones up the mountain in iron chains
1	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | to-infinitive |  | stones |  | iron chains |  | up the mountain | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stone=Value in chain=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yoked like oxen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t12:o3:1
# text = yoked like oxen
1	yoked	yoke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yoke** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like oxen | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
beaten in fields

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t12:o4:1
# text = beaten in fields
1	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | participle |  |  |  | fields |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location |

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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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