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title: Wasn't the king mint about his demons getting bagged? — Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wasn't the king mint about his demons getting bagged? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1820 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins her with ants, tigers, a flying bed and a hair» 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 2 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins he…

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Wasn't the king mint about his demons getting bagged?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** demons · **What happens:** not be, get, bag · **To what, where:** king mint

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1820 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins her with ants, tigers, a flying bed and a hair» 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/1820-pg7128-part4/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1820-pg7128-part4:t2:1
# text = Wasn't the king mint about his demons getting bagged?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	mint	mint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	bagged	bag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past |  | the king mint |  |  |  | about his demons | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | gerund | his demons *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bag** | participle | his demons *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: 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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he was happy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1820-pg7128-part4:t2:o1:1
# text = he was happy
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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he cried when they escaped

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1820-pg7128-part4:t2:o2:1
# text = he cried when they escaped
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **escape** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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he was glad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1820-pg7128-part4:t2:o3:1
# text = he was glad
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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he was glad they were killed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1820-pg7128-part4:t2:o4:1
# text = he was glad they were killed
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** | past · passive |  | they |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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