---
title: What did the king tell the keepers to do with Omar? — Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the king tell the keepers to do with Omar? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 717 «Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part 57: Labakan is taken for the prince, but the queen doubts him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/717-pg2435-part57/t13/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/717-pg2435-part57/) / t13

# Test 13 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part 57: Labakan is taken…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What did the king tell the keepers to do with Omar?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** tell, do · **To what, where:** keepers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 717 «Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part 57: Labakan is taken for the prince, but the queen doubts him» 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/717-pg2435-part57/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:717-pg2435-part57:t13:1
# text = What did the king tell the keepers to do with Omar?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Omar	Omar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the king | the keepers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with Omar | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Secure the madman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:717-pg2435-part57:t13:o1:1
# text = Secure the madman
1	Secure	secure	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	madman	madman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **secure** | imperative | you *not said here* | the madman |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition madman=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Seize the imposter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:717-pg2435-part57:t13:o2:1
# text = Seize the imposter
1	Seize	seize	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	imposter	imposter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | imperative | you *not said here* | the imposter |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent imposter=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hold him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:717-pg2435-part57:t13:o3:1
# text = Hold him
1	Hold	hold	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	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Jail him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:717-pg2435-part57:t13:o4:1
# text = Jail him
1	Jail	jail	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	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jail** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part…, test 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/717-pg2435-part57/t12/)
- next →: [Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part…, test 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/717-pg2435-part57/t14/)
- ↑ back to [Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part 57: Labakan is taken for the prince, but the queen doubts him](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/717-pg2435-part57/)

