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title: Bruh, what did the lost King promise Jack? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruh, what did the lost King promise Jack? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1929 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince outwits the Princess, and a hedgehog-boy rides a cock to the forest» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince…

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Bruh, what did the lost King promise Jack?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, lose · **To what, where:** lost King promise

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1929 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince outwits the Princess, and a hedgehog-boy rides a cock to the forest» 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/1929-pg7277-part66/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:t12:1
# text = Bruh, what did the lost King promise Jack?
1	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the lost King promise |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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whoever he met first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:t12:o1:1
# text = whoever he met first
1	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | he |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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whatever met him first on the road home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:t12:o2:1
# text = whatever met him first on the road home
1	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | whatever | him *= he* |  | the road |  | first, home *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
whatever met him first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:t12:o3:1
# text = whatever met him first
1	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | whatever | him *= he* |  |  |  | first *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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a fine horse and half of his kingdom to the first man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:t12:o4:1
# text = a fine horse and half of his kingdom to the first man
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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