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title: fr, what did the future Buddha want to fix in the king? — Indian Fairy Tales, A Lac of Rupees fo… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, what did the future Buddha want to fix in the king? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1835 «Indian Fairy Tales, A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice, part 19: the cat wins back the ring, and the Brahman's wife sets out for the king» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Test 8 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice, p…

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fr, what did the future Buddha want to fix in the king?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fr · **What happens:** do, want, fix · **To what, where:** future

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1835 «Indian Fairy Tales, A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice, part 19: the cat wins back the ring, and the Brahman's wife sets out for the king» 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/1835-pg7128-part19/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1835-pg7128-part19:t8:1
# text = fr, what did the future Buddha want to fix in the king?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	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	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | fr | the future |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent future=Eventuality |
| 2 | **want** | present | fr |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **fix** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | fr *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the king | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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his anger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1835-pg7128-part19:t8:o1:1
# text = his anger
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **anger** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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his bad temper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1835-pg7128-part19:t8:o2:1
# text = his bad temper
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **temper** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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his refusal to ever listen to advice from anyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1835-pg7128-part19:t8:o3:1
# text = his refusal to ever listen to advice from anyone
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	refusal	refusal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | to-infinitive | his refusal |  |  | anyone | ever | to advice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to advice=Theme |
| 2 | **refuse** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom refusal «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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his talkativeness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1835-pg7128-part19:t8:o4:1
# text = his talkativeness
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	talkativeness	talkativeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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