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title: Fam, what was the last thing the Emperor wanted nicked? — Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fam, what was the last thing the Emperor wanted nicked? Test 8 · ★ 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 op
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# Test 8 · ★ · Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fail…

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Fam, what was the last thing the Emperor wanted nicked?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fam · **What happens:** be, nick · **To what, where:** last thing, Fam

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t8:1
# text = Fam, what was the last thing the Emperor wanted nicked?
1	Fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	nicked	nick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Fam and the last thing | the last thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **nick** | past · passive |  | Fam and the last thing |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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 {#o1}

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the bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t8:o1:1
# text = the bird
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t8:o2:1
# text = the horse
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the golden mermaid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t8:o3:1
# text = the golden mermaid
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the golden mermaid that lived in the deep lake behind the palace garden walls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t8:o4:1
# text = the golden mermaid that lived in the deep lake behind the palace garden walls
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the golden mermaid |  |  | the deep lake |  | behind the garden walls | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Location |

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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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