--- title: Wait, what did he say the king wanted, like the posh salad? — Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: th… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, what did he say the king wanted, like the posh salad? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 780 «Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks the witch, her maid and the lady, and turns the tables on them with salad» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/780-pg2591-part56/t5/) [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/) / [Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/780-pg2591-part56/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks th… Wait, what did he say the king wanted, like the posh salad? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, he, king · **What happens:** wait, say, want · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 780 «Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks the witch, her maid and the lady, and turns the tables on them with salad» 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/780-pg2591-part56/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:780-pg2591-part56:t5:1 # text = Wait, what did he say the king wanted, like the posh salad? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 posh posh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 salad salad NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | he | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **want** | past | the king | | | | | like the posh salad | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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} the finest salad ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:780-pg2591-part56:t5:o1:1 # text = the finest salad 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 finest fine ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 salad salad NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the sweetest greens ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:780-pg2591-part56:t5:o2:1 # text = the sweetest greens 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sweetest sweet ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 greens green NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} the rarest herb from the king's own far garden ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:780-pg2591-part56:t5:o3:1 # text = the rarest herb from the king's own far garden 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 rarest rare ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 herb herb NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the royal cabbage ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:780-pg2591-part56:t5:o4:1 # text = the royal cabbage 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 cabbage cabbage NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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