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title: bro, did the emperor care more about his soldiers or his fits? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, did the emperor care more about his soldiers or his fits? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 274 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1: a vain Emperor is fooled by two cheating weavers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1:…

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bro, did the emperor care more about his soldiers or his fits?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** emperor care

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 274 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1: a vain Emperor is fooled by two cheating weavers» 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/274-pg1597-part1/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t1:1
# text = bro, did the emperor care more about his soldiers or his fits?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	fits	fit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | bro | the emperor care |  |  |  | about bro's soldiers or bro's fits | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Eventuality |

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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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his outfits way more than anything else he owned or did

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t1:o1:1
# text = his outfits way more than anything else he owned or did
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	outfits	outfit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obl	_	_
7	else	else	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | past | he |  |  |  |  | than anything | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **do** | past | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the soldiers, duh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t1:o2:1
# text = the soldiers, duh
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
his fits, way more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t1:o3:1
# text = his fits, way more
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	fits	fit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
soldiers, mostly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t1:o4:1
# text = soldiers, mostly
1	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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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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