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title: Wait, how did the King catch Bramintho out, though? — Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, how did the King catch Bramintho out, though? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1895 «Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimond brings home the real Prince and returns the ring to the Fairy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimond brings home the r…

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Wait, how did the King catch Bramintho out, though?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, do out · **To what, where:** King catch

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1895 «Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimond brings home the real Prince and returns the ring to the Fairy» 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/1895-pg7277-part32/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:t12:1
# text = Wait, how did the King catch Bramintho out, though?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	catch	catch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	Bramintho	Bramintho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do out** | past | you *not said here* | the King catch |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent catch=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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he paid a stranger to spy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:t12:o1:1
# text = he paid a stranger to spy
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	spy	spy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | he | a stranger |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Asset |
| 2 | **spy** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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he hired a secret agent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:t12:o2:1
# text = he hired a secret agent
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hired	hire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	agent	agent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hire** | past | he | a secret agent |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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he paid a stranger to spy on him every night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:t12:o3:1
# text = he paid a stranger to spy on him every night
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	spy	spy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | he | a stranger |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Asset |
| 2 | **spy** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  | night | on him *= he* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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he sent a loyal spy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:t12:o4:1
# text = he sent a loyal spy
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	loyal	loyal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	spy	spy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | he | a loyal spy |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spy=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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