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title: Dead funny, what's the old king sick for, like, the cure? — English Fairy Tales, The King of Engla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead funny, what's the old king sick for, like, the cure? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 254 «English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Sons, part 1: Jack rides off for golden apples and meets three strange old men» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Son…

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Dead funny, what's the old king sick for, like, the cure?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 254 «English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Sons, part 1: Jack rides off for golden apples and meets three strange old men» 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/254-pg14241-part21/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:t5:1
# text = Dead funny, what's the old king sick for, like, the cure?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for the cure; the old king *obl:unmarked*; sick *property* | 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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Honey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:t5:o1:1
# text = Honey
1	Honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Golden apples

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:t5:o2:1
# text = Golden apples
1	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Silver pears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:t5:o3:1
# text = Silver pears
1	Silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pears	pear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cider broth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:t5:o4:1
# text = Cider broth
1	Cider	cider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	broth	broth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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