---
title: so what did the king hand over to the beggar? — Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfr… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what did the king hand over to the beggar? Test 2 · ★ 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 an
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/341-pg18442-part1/t2/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfr…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/341-pg18442-part1/) / t2

# Test 2 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar, p…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
so what did the king hand over to the beggar?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do over · **To what, where:** king hand

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:341-pg18442-part1:t2:1
# text = so what did the king hand over to the beggar?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
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	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do over** | past |  | the king hand |  |  |  | to the beggar | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Eventuality |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
half the loaf and half the wine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:341-pg18442-part1:t2:o1:1
# text = half the loaf and half the wine
1	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a quarter of the loaf and wine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:341-pg18442-part1:t2:o2:1
# text = a quarter of the loaf and wine
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
all the food the household had left in the hall, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:341-pg18442-part1:t2:o3:1
# text = all the food the household had left in the hall, bro
1	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | all food |  | the hall and bro |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in hall=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the whole loaf, the wine, and a coin from his purse, lowkey

<!-- fold The tree, 12 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:341-pg18442-part1:t2:o4:1
# text = the whole loaf, the wine, and a coin from his purse, lowkey
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfr…, test 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/341-pg18442-part1/t1/)
- next →: [Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfr…, test 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/341-pg18442-part1/t3/)
- ↑ back to [Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar, part 1: Alfred shares his last bread and wine, then sees a vision](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/341-pg18442-part1/)