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title: did the soldier's plan work or nah? — Orange Fairy Book, The Gold-Bearded Ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: did the soldier's plan work or nah? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 693 «Orange Fairy Book, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 1: a wicked stepfather, a milk-brook, and a golden cage» 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
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# Test 8 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 1: a wicked…

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did the soldier's plan work or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** soldier · **What happens:** do, work · **To what, where:** plan work

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 693 «Orange Fairy Book, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 1: a wicked stepfather, a milk-brook, and a golden cage» 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/693-pg2435-part33/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:693-pg2435-part33:t8:1
# text = did the soldier's plan work or nah?
1	did	do	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	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the soldier's plan work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 2 | **work** |  | the soldier |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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it totally worked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:693-pg2435-part33:t8:o1:1
# text = it totally worked
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past | it |  |  |  |  | totally *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
they caught him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:693-pg2435-part33:t8:o2:1
# text = they caught him
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | they | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it failed badly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:693-pg2435-part33:t8:o3:1
# text = it failed badly
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | past | it |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it totally failed, they caught him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:693-pg2435-part33:t8:o4:1
# text = it totally failed, they caught him
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | past | it |  |  |  |  | totally *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **catch** | past | they | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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