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title: Mate, what did the king give the prince on the bed journey? — Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did the king give the prince on the bed journey? Test 7 · ★ 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 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins he…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mate, what did the king give the prince on the bed journey?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** do, give · **To what, where:** king, prince, bed journey

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1820-pg7128-part4:t7:1
# text = Mate, what did the king give the prince on the bed journey?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	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	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate | the king |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality |
| 2 | **give** | present | Mate | the prince |  | the bed journey |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent prince=Theme on journey=Asset |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no gift yet; he beat the drum for hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1820-pg7128-part4:t7:o1:1
# text = no gift yet; he beat the drum for hours
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | past | no gift | the drum |  |  | hour |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no gift yet; he beat the drum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1820-pg7128-part4:t7:o2:1
# text = no gift yet; he beat the drum
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | past | no gift | the drum |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a silver cup and some grain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1820-pg7128-part4:t7:o3:1
# text = a silver cup and some grain
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nothing, he just went home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1820-pg7128-part4:t7:o4:1
# text = nothing, he just went home
1	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | he |  |  |  |  | nothing *vocative*; home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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