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title: who's St. James supposed to be, fam? — Household Tales, The Two Friends: a ki… · tree and pragmatics
description: who's St. James supposed to be, fam? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 722 «Household Tales, The Two Friends: a king's poison fails, a friend is revived, and a saint asks for a baby's blood» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Household Tales, The Two Friends: a king's poison fails, a…

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who's St. James supposed to be, fam?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** suppose, be · **To what, where:** fam

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 722 «Household Tales, The Two Friends: a king's poison fails, a friend is revived, and a saint asks for a baby's blood» 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/722-pg2435-part62/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:722-pg2435-part62:t7:1
# text = who's St. James supposed to be, fam?
1	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | fam |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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a wise old doctor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:722-pg2435-part62:t7:o1:1
# text = a wise old doctor
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a traveling holy monk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:722-pg2435-part62:t7:o2:1
# text = a traveling holy monk
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	traveling	traveling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a holy man who helps true friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:722-pg2435-part62:t7:o3:1
# text = a holy man who helps true friends
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | a holy man |  | true friends |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the apostle who shows up at the end to bless the family and arrange everything in the castle for good

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:722-pg2435-part62:t7:o4:1
# text = the apostle who shows up at the end to bless the family and arrange everything in the castle for good
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	apostle	apostle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	bless	bless	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	arrange	arrange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show up** | present | the apostle |  |  |  | at the end |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |
| 2 | **bless** | to-infinitive | the apostle *not said here* | the family |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme |
| 3 | **arrange** | infinitive | the apostle *not said here* | everything |  | the castle for good |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent everything=Theme in castle=Destination |

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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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