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title: Which expression best characterises the king's emotional state upon… — Historical Tales, The King and His Haw… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which expression best characterises the king's emotional state upon the third interruption? Exam question 3 of lesson 354 «Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirsty king is kept from drinking by his pet hawk» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree an
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# Exam question 3 · Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirst…

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Which expression best characterises the king's emotional state upon the third interruption?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** expression · **What happens:** characteris · **To what, where:** emotional state

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 354 «Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirsty king is kept from drinking by his pet hawk» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/354-pg18442-part14/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:e3:1
# text = Which expression best characterises the king's emotional state upon the third interruption?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	2	advmod	_	_
4	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	emotional	emotional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	interruption	interruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **characteris** | present | which expression | the king's emotional state |  |  |  | upon the third interruption | 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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extreme anger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:e3:o1:1
# text = extreme anger
1	extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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mild surprise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:e3:o2:1
# text = mild surprise
1	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	surprise	surprise	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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extreme anger toward his pet hawk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:e3:o3:1
# text = extreme anger toward his pet hawk
1	extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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extreme anger mixed with deep thirst and tiredness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:e3:o4:1
# text = extreme anger mixed with deep thirst and tiredness
1	extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	tiredness	tiredness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix** | participle |  | extreme anger *not said here* |  |  |  | with deep thirst and tiredness | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with thirst=Co-Patient |

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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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