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title: Lol, what did the devil boil the soldier in? — Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what did the devil boil the soldier in? Test 9 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 9 · ★ · Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a hunter's dog, a curse…

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Lol, what did the devil boil the soldier in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** devil · **What happens:** boil in · **To what, where:** soldier

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t9:1
# text = Lol, what did the devil boil the soldier in?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
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	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil in** | past · do-support | the devil | the soldier |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary soldier=Patient |

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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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a bathtub

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t9:o1:1
# text = a bathtub
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bathtub	bathtub	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 soup pot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t9:o2:1
# text = a soup pot
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pot	pot	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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a frying pan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t9:o3:1
# text = a frying pan
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	frying	frying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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a cauldron

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t9:o4:1
# text = a cauldron
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cauldron	cauldron	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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