--- title: so what did the young man ask for first, mate? — Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a… · tree and pragmatics description: so what did the young man ask for first, mate? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1896 «Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses his magic box and goes looking for it across the sky» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1896-pg7277-part33/t2/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1896-pg7277-part33/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses hi… so what did the young man ask for first, mate? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** young man · **What happens:** ask This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1896 «Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses his magic box and goes looking for it across the sky» 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/1896-pg7277-part33/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:t2:1 # text = so what did the young man ask for first, mate? 1 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · do-support | the young man | | | | | mate *vocative* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | 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 hat full of gold ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:t2:o1:1 # text = a hat full of gold 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a fancy carriage with four horses and a driver ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:t2:o2:1 # text = a fancy carriage with four horses and a driver 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 fancy fancy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 carriage carriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} a whole castle built of gold, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:t2:o3:1 # text = a whole castle built of gold, mate 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | participle | | a whole castle and mate *not said here* | | | | of gold | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ### Option 4 {#o4} a horse and cart ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:t2:o4:1 # text = a horse and cart 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 cart cart NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` 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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