--- title: so what did the boy tell her he was? — Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon… · tree and pragmatics description: so what did the boy tell her he was? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1845 «Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, part 29: Katar hides the prince, then the prince becomes a poor servant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1845-pg7128-part29/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1845-pg7128-part29/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, pa… so what did the boy tell her he was? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** do, tell, be · **To what, where:** boy, her · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1845 «Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, part 29: Katar hides the prince, then the prince becomes a poor servant» 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/1845-pg7128-part29/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t12:1 # text = so what did the boy tell her he was? 1 so so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | the boy | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | | | her *= she* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **be** | past | boy | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} a very poor man ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t12:o1:1 # text = a very poor man 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a very poor man from a faraway village ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t12:o2:1 # text = a very poor man from a faraway village 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 faraway faraway ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} a very old man ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t12:o3:1 # text = a very old man 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} a poor man ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t12:o4:1 # text = a poor man 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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