--- title: Ayy, what did the guards use to batter the Prince? — Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Ayy, what did the guards use to batter the Prince? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1934 «Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fails to steal the golden horse and is caught» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1934-pg7277-part71/t10/) [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/) / [Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1934-pg7277-part71/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fail… Ayy, what did the guards use to batter the Prince? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ayy, guards · **What happens:** do, use, batter · **To what, where:** Prince This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1934 «Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fails to steal the golden horse and is caught» 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/1934-pg7277-part71/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t10:1 # text = Ayy, what did the guards use to batter the Prince? 1 Ayy Ayy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ 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 6 det _ _ 6 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 batter batter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Ayy | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **use** | present | the guards | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **batter** | to-infinitive | the guards *not said here* | the Prince | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent prince=Instrument | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} horse-whips, proper harsh ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t10:o1:1 # text = horse-whips, proper harsh 1 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 whips whip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 harsh harsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} fists, bruv ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t10:o2:1 # text = fists, bruv 1 fists fist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} iron chains, proper rough ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t10:o3:1 # text = iron chains, proper rough 1 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 chains chain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} sticks, rough ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t10:o4:1 # text = sticks, rough 1 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` 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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