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title: what did the king promise, was it sweets or summink — Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seed… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the king promise, was it sweets or summink Test 7 · ★ of lesson 2069 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpina pulls up a strange shrub and is carried off by Pluto» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpi…

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what did the king promise, was it sweets or summink

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** promise · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** king promise, sweets

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 2069 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpina pulls up a strange shrub and is carried off by Pluto» 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/2069-pg976-part28/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t7:1
# text = what did the king promise, was it sweets or summink
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	summink	summink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the king promise |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | past | promise | sweets or summink |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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a box of gold and silver coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t7:o1:1
# text = a box of gold and silver coins
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a garden of emeralds and gold coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t7:o2:1
# text = a garden of emeralds and gold coins
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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a garden of pearls, diamonds and rubies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t7:o3:1
# text = a garden of pearls, diamonds and rubies
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a palace full of silver and jewels

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t7:o4:1
# text = a palace full of silver and jewels
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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