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title: ngl, what kind of king did the shepherd turn out to be? — Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shephe… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, what kind of king did the shepherd turn out to be? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 666 «Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast» 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 8 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast…

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ngl, what kind of king did the shepherd turn out to be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** king, ngl · **What happens:** do, turn out · **To what, where:** shepherd

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 666 «Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast» 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/666-pg2435-part6/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t8:1
# text = ngl, what kind of king did the shepherd turn out to be?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | king | the shepherd |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Eventuality |
| 2 | **turn out** | present | ngl |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 cruel one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t8:o1:1
# text = a cruel one
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a rather lazy one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t8:o2:1
# text = a rather lazy one
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a very good one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t8:o3:1
# text = a very good one
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	one	one	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 very good one who ruled the people kindly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t8:o4:1
# text = a very good one who ruled the people kindly
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | a good one | the people |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent people=Result |

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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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