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title: yo did the Sultan really send three canes, or am i trippin? — Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Clever Yout… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo did the Sultan really send three canes, or am i trippin? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 672 «Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Clever Youth, part 12: the youth solves three riddles and outwits the Sultan's witch» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 1 · ★ · Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Clever Youth, part 12: the yout…

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yo did the Sultan really send three canes, or am i trippin?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** yo, i · **What happens:** send, be · **To what, where:** three canes, trippin

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 672 «Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Clever Youth, part 12: the youth solves three riddles and outwits the Sultan's witch» 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/672-pg2435-part12/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:672-pg2435-part12:t1:1
# text = yo did the Sultan really send three canes, or am i trippin?
1	yo	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	canes	cane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	trippin	trippin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · do-support | yo | three canes |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cane=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | i | trippin |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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three foals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:672-pg2435-part12:t1:o1:1
# text = three foals
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	foals	foal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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three troughs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:672-pg2435-part12:t1:o2:1
# text = three troughs
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	troughs	trough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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three ropes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:672-pg2435-part12:t1:o3:1
# text = three ropes
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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three canes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:672-pg2435-part12:t1:o4:1
# text = three canes
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	canes	cane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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