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title: Real talk, what did the knight want in the end? — Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, what did the knight want in the end? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 682 «Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a boy saves a magician from wolves and wins his horse» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 13 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a b…

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Real talk, what did the knight want in the end?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Real talk · **What happens:** do, want · **To what, where:** knight, end

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 682 «Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a boy saves a magician from wolves and wins his horse» 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/682-pg2435-part22/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:682-pg2435-part22:t13:1
# text = Real talk, what did the knight want in the end?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Real talk | the knight |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Eventuality |
| 2 | **want** | present | Real talk |  |  |  | in the end |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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To go back home to his wife in the valley

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:682-pg2435-part22:t13:o1:1
# text = To go back home to his wife in the valley
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the valley |  | to his wife *result*; home *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to wife=Result |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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To return to the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:682-pg2435-part22:t13:o2:1
# text = To return to the king
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the king *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to king=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To wed the princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:682-pg2435-part22:t13:o3:1
# text = To wed the princess
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	wed	wed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wed** | to-infinitive |  | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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To go home to his wife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:682-pg2435-part22:t13:o4:1
# text = To go home to his wife
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to his wife; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial\_Location |

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