--- title: Okay, why did the King keep feeding the Eagle? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Water King and… · tree and pragmatics description: Okay, why did the King keep feeding the Eagle? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 435 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise, part 27: a wife's curse on her children, then a King and an Eagle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/435-pg22373-part27/t5/) [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/) / [Russian Folk-Tales, The Water King and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/435-pg22373-part27/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise,… Okay, why did the King keep feeding the Eagle? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** King · **What happens:** keep, feed · **To what, where:** Eagle This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 435 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise, part 27: a wife's curse on her children, then a King and an Eagle» 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/435-pg22373-part27/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:435-pg22373-part27:t5:1 # text = Okay, why did the King keep feeding the Eagle? 1 Okay okay INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 feeding feed VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Eagle Eagle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past · do-support | the King | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **feed** | gerund | the King *not said here* | | the Eagle | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Recipient | 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} cos it moaned at him, proper needy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:435-pg22373-part27:t5:o1:1 # text = cos it moaned at him, proper needy 1 cos cos VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 moaned moan VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 needy needy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cos** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **moan** | past | it | | | | | at him *= he* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at he=Stimulus | ### Option 2 {#o2} cos it kept on begging, dead needy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:435-pg22373-part27:t5:o2:1 # text = cos it kept on begging, dead needy 1 cos cos VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 xcomp _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 begging begging NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 needy needy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cos** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | participle | you *not said here* | | | begging | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on begging=Location | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} cos it begged him, dead desperate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:435-pg22373-part27:t5:o3:1 # text = cos it begged him, dead desperate 1 cos cos VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 desperate desperate NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cos** | imperative | you *not said here* | dead desperate | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | it | | him *= he* | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ### Option 4 {#o4} cos it was hungry ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:435-pg22373-part27:t5:o4:1 # text = cos it was hungry 1 cos cos VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 ccomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cos** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | it | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | **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. 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