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title: Mate, what did Laptitza promise to hand over? — Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did Laptitza promise to hand over? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1801 «Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, part 1: an emperor hears three sisters' boasts and carries off Laptitza» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 11 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, par…

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Mate, what did Laptitza promise to hand over?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Laptitza · **What happens:** promise, hand over · **To what, where:** Mate

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1801 «Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, part 1: an emperor hears three sisters' boasts and carries off Laptitza» 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/1801-pg641-part52/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t11:1
# text = Mate, what did Laptitza promise to hand over?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	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	Laptitza	Laptitza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · do-support | Laptitza | Mate |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hand over** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Laptitza *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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Gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t11:o1:1
# text = Gold
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Two twin boys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t11:o2:1
# text = Two twin boys
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	twin	twin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	boys	boy	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 son

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t11:o3:1
# text = A son
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A herd of cows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t11:o4:1
# text = A herd of cows
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	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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