--- title: Wait, what did the youth's father warn the marriage would do? — Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, what did the youth's father warn the marriage would do? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 704 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsman: he loses the king's golden ox, dodges the scythes, and wins a bride» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/704-pg2435-part44/t13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/704-pg2435-part44/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsm… Wait, what did the youth's father warn the marriage would do? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, father, marriage · **What happens:** wait, warn, do · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 704 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsman: he loses the king's golden ox, dodges the scythes, and wins a bride» 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/704-pg2435-part44/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:704-pg2435-part44:t13:1 # text = Wait, what did the youth's father warn the marriage would do? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past · do-support | the youth's father | | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** | would | the marriage | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} cost him his life ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:704-pg2435-part44:t13:o1:1 # text = cost him his life 1 cost cost VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 iobj _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cost** | imperative | you *not said here* | his life | him *= he* | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary life=Value | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} kill him at once ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:704-pg2435-part44:t13:o2:1 # text = kill him at once 1 kill kill VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} ruin him ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:704-pg2435-part44:t13:o3:1 # text = ruin him 1 ruin ruin VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ruin** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} end his life ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:704-pg2435-part44:t13:o4:1 # text = end his life 1 end end VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **end** | imperative | you *not said here* | his life | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality life=Eventuality | **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. 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