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title: ngl, what did the shepherd do with the ravens' news? — Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena i… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, what did the shepherd do with the ravens' news? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 669 «Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena is won back and the Simons are rewarded» 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 was wr
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# Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena is won back and the S…

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ngl, what did the shepherd do with the ravens' news?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ngl · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** shepherd

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 669 «Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena is won back and the Simons are rewarded» 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/669-pg2435-part9/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:669-pg2435-part9:t13:1
# text = ngl, what did the shepherd do with the ravens' news?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
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	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | ngl | the shepherd |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | present | ngl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the ravens's news | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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told his master

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:669-pg2435-part9:t13:o1:1
# text = told his master
1	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	iobj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | his master |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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told his master everything he had heard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:669-pg2435-part9:t13:o2:1
# text = told his master everything he had heard
1	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	1	obj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  | everything |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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fled from the field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:669-pg2435-part9:t13:o3:1
# text = fled from the field
1	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past |  |  |  | the field |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from field=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
told the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:669-pg2435-part9:t13:o4:1
# text = told the king
1	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the king |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |

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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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