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title: how was he gonna call the army together? — Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfr… · tree and pragmatics
description: how was he gonna call the army together? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 341 «Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar, part 1: Alfred shares his last bread and wine, then sees a vision» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 10 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar, p…

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how was he gonna call the army together?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** be

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 341 «Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar, part 1: Alfred shares his last bread and wine, then sees a vision» 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/341-pg18442-part1/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:341-pg18442-part1:t10:1
# text = how was he gonna call the army together?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	gonna	gonna	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | call, together *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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blow his horn three times, loud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:341-pg18442-part1:t10:o1:1
# text = blow his horn three times, loud
1	blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | imperative | you *not said here* | his horn |  |  | time |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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send a rider to each town, quick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:341-pg18442-part1:t10:o2:1
# text = send a rider to each town, quick
1	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | imperative | you *not said here* | a rider |  | each town |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rider=Theme to town=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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send a rider

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:341-pg18442-part1:t10:o3:1
# text = send a rider
1	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | imperative | you *not said here* | a rider |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rider=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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beat his shield at dawn, very loud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:341-pg18442-part1:t10:o4:1
# text = beat his shield at dawn, very loud
1	beat	beat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | imperative | you *not said here* | his shield |  |  | dawn | loud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shield=Theme |

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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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