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title: What did the old man promise to bestow upon Tiidu in the dream? — Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the old man promise to bestow upon Tiidu in the dream? Exam question 4 of lesson 679 «Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magic apples and a hope of rescue» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Exam question 4 · Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magi…

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What did the old man promise to bestow upon Tiidu in the dream?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, bestow · **To what, where:** old man promise, dream

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 679 «Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magic apples and a hope of rescue» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/679-pg2435-part19/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:679-pg2435-part19:e4:1
# text = What did the old man promise to bestow upon Tiidu in the dream?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	bestow	bestow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the old man promise |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality |
| 2 | **bestow** | to-infinitive |  | the old man promise *not said here* |  | the dream |  | upon Tiidu | 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 {#o1}

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A brand new flute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:679-pg2435-part19:e4:o1:1
# text = A brand new flute
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	brand	brand	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	flute	flute	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 boat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:679-pg2435-part19:e4:o2:1
# text = A boat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A new set of pipes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:679-pg2435-part19:e4:o3:1
# text = A new set of pipes
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A shiny new harp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:679-pg2435-part19:e4:o4:1
# text = A shiny new harp
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	harp	harp	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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