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title: Dang, what kind of trip was this? — Historical Tales, The King and His Haw… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dang, what kind of trip was this? Test 13 · ★ 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 and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice
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# Test 13 · ★ · Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirst…

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Dang, what kind of trip was this?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** this

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This is test 13 · ★ 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. 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:t13:1
# text = Dang, what kind of trip was this?
1	Dang	Dang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | this |  |  |  |  | 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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a merry hunting party

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:t13:o1:1
# text = a merry hunting party
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	party	party	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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a dull trip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:t13:o2:1
# text = a dull trip
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a quiet royal visit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:t13:o3:1
# text = a quiet royal visit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a grim hunting march

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:t13:o4:1
# text = a grim hunting march
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	march	march	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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