--- title: yaar, why couldn't the King punish the sepoys? — Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon… · tree and pragmatics description: yaar, why couldn't the King punish the sepoys? Test 8 · ★ 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 ques --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1845-pg7128-part29/t8/) [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/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, pa… yaar, why couldn't the King punish the sepoys? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** King · **What happens:** not punish · **To what, where:** sepoys This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t8:1 # text = yaar, why couldn't the King punish the sepoys? 1 yaar yaar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 0 root _ _ 4 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 punish punish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl:relcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sepoys sepoy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **punish** | could | the King | the sepoys | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sepoy=Patient | 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} he let the horse escape himself and blamed no one ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t8:o1:1 # text = he let the horse escape himself and blamed no one 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 6 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 blamed blame VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 10 det _ _ 10 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | past | he | the horse | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **escape** | infinitive | the horse *not said here* | horse | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **blame** | past | he *not said here* | no one | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} he let the horse escape himself ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t8:o2:1 # text = he let the horse escape himself 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 6 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | past | he | the horse | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **escape** | infinitive | the horse *not said here* | horse | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Initial\_Location | ### Option 3 {#o3} the horse ran off fast ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t8:o3:1 # text = the horse ran off fast 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 off off ADV RB _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run off** | past | the horse | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} the sepoys had fled already ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t8:o4:1 # text = the sepoys had fled already 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sepoys sepoy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 fled flee VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 already already ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flee** | past · perfect · passive | | the sepoys | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_Location | **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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