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title: Ngl, how did the youth get the old man's family to be happy? — Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, how did the youth get the old man's family to be happy? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 488 «Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a hunter's dog, a cursed son, and a soldier who never washes end in devils outwitted by devils.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Test 13 · ★ · Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a hunter's dog, a curse…

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Ngl, how did the youth get the old man's family to be happy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ngl, youth · **What happens:** do, get, be · **To what, where:** family

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 488 «Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a hunter's dog, a cursed son, and a soldier who never washes end in devils outwitted by devils.» 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/488-pg22373-part80/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t13:1
# text = Ngl, how did the youth get the old man's family to be happy?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	youth	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Ngl |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | present | the youth | the old man's family |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | the youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | 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 {#o1}

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the devils gave them gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t13:o1:1
# text = the devils gave them gold
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the devils | gold | them *= they* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient gold=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the merchant took them in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t13:o2:1
# text = the merchant took them in
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the merchant | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the king gave them land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t13:o3:1
# text = the king gave them land
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the king | land | them *= they* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient land=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the priest blessed them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t13:o4:1
# text = the priest blessed them
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blessed	bless	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** | past | the priest | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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