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title: Bro, what did the king call Jesper's pearls at first? — Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did the king call Jesper's pearls at first? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1785 «Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper helps the ants and is set to sort the grain» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 9 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper…

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Bro, what did the king call Jesper's pearls at first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jesper · **What happens:** do, pearl · **To what, where:** king call

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1785 «Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper helps the ants and is set to sort the grain» 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/1785-pg641-part36/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1785-pg641-part36:t9:1
# text = Bro, what did the king call Jesper's pearls at first?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	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	7	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the king call  Jesper's pearls |  |  |  | Bro *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pearl** |  | Jesper |  |  |  |  |  | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: poss=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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Worthless junk, deadass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1785-pg641-part36:t9:o1:1
# text = Worthless junk, deadass
1	Worthless	worthless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	junk	junk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	deadass	deadass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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The finest ever, deadass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1785-pg641-part36:t9:o2:1
# text = The finest ever, deadass
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	deadass	deadass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Trash, deadass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1785-pg641-part36:t9:o3:1
# text = Trash, deadass
1	Trash	trash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	deadass	deadass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Just cinders, deadass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1785-pg641-part36:t9:o4:1
# text = Just cinders, deadass
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	cinders	cinder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	deadass	deadass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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