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title: wait, what got burned into the soldier's forehead? — Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a f… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what got burned into the soldier's forehead? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 353 «Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take his friend's place in prison» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 7 · ★ · Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take…

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wait, what got burned into the soldier's forehead?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, burn · **To what, where:** forehead

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 353 «Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take his friend's place in prison» 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/353-pg18442-part13/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t7:1
# text = wait, what got burned into the soldier's forehead?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **burn** | past · passive |  |  |  | the soldier's forehead |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

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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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THE SHAMEFUL THIEF OF THE SEASHORE FARM

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t7:o1:1
# text = THE SHAMEFUL THIEF OF THE SEASHORE FARM
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	SHAMEFUL	shameful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	THIEF	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	SEASHORE	seashore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	FARM	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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THE CHURLISH SOLDIER

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t7:o2:1
# text = THE CHURLISH SOLDIER
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	CHURLISH	churlish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	SOLDIER	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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THE UNGRATEFUL SOLDIER WHO LIED TO THE KING

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t7:o3:1
# text = THE UNGRATEFUL SOLDIER WHO LIED TO THE KING
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	UNGRATEFUL	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	SOLDIER	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	WHO	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	LIED	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	TO	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	KING	KING	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the UNGRATEFUL SOLDIER |  |  |  |  | to the KING | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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THE UNGRATEFUL GUEST

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t7:o4:1
# text = THE UNGRATEFUL GUEST
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	UNGRATEFUL	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	GUEST	guest	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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