--- title: Who rowed like mad to get the old King, was it the servant? — Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a fa… · tree and pragmatics description: Who rowed like mad to get the old King, was it the servant? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1928 «Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a faithful servant saves his master, then a witch's poison kills a horse, a raven and twelve robbers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1928-pg7277-part65/t5/) [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/) / [Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a fa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1928-pg7277-part65/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a faithful servant saves… Who rowed like mad to get the old King, was it the servant? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** it · **What happens:** row, get, be · **To what, where:** old King, servant This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1928 «Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a faithful servant saves his master, then a witch's poison kills a horse, a raven and twelve robbers» 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/1928-pg7277-part65/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1928-pg7277-part65:t5:1 # text = Who rowed like mad to get the old King, was it the servant? 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 2 nsubj _ _ 2 rowed row VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obl _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **row** | past | | | | | | like mad | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | | the old King | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** | past | it | the servant | | | | | tree rules | 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} Yeah, the servant, dead loyal ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1928-pg7277-part65:t5:o1:1 # text = Yeah, the servant, dead loyal 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 loyal loyal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Nah, the guards, dead lost ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1928-pg7277-part65:t5:o2:1 # text = Nah, the guards, dead lost 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 7 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | participle | | the guards *not said here* | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Nah, the captain, dead lazy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1928-pg7277-part65:t5:o3:1 # text = Nah, the captain, dead lazy 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Nah, the Queen, dead bored ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1928-pg7277-part65:t5:o4:1 # text = Nah, the Queen, dead bored 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bored bored ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ ``` 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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