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title: no cap, what was the king's deal with crying? — Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Coul… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap, what was the king's deal with crying? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 670 «Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the king adopts the boy, and the sword slides home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the…

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no cap, what was the king's deal with crying?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cap · **What happens:** be, cry · **To what, where:** deal

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 670 «Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the king adopts the boy, and the sword slides home» 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/670-pg2435-part10/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:670-pg2435-part10:t2:1
# text = no cap, what was the king's deal with crying?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
10	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | no cap | the king's deal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | no cap *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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 {#o1}

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he couldn't stand anyone else crying cause it made him feel sad for the whole day

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:670-pg2435-part10:t2:o1:1
# text = he couldn't stand anyone else crying cause it made him feel sad for the whole day
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	else	else	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stand** | could | he | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | past | it | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product |
| 4 | **feel** | infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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he couldn't stand anyone else crying

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:670-pg2435-part10:t2:o2:1
# text = he couldn't stand anyone else crying
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	else	else	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stand** | could | he | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he couldn't handle others sobbing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:670-pg2435-part10:t2:o3:1
# text = he couldn't handle others sobbing
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	handle	handle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	sobbing	sob	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **handle** | could | he | others |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme |
| 2 | **sob** | gerund | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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he couldn't stand anyone else crying, so he sent his guards out to fetch every child in the village

<!-- fold The tree, 20 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:670-pg2435-part10:t2:o4:1
# text = he couldn't stand anyone else crying, so he sent his guards out to fetch every child in the village
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	else	else	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stand** | could | he | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **send out** | past | he | his guards |  |  |  | out *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Theme |
| 4 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* | every child |  | the village |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |

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