--- title: What's the king's big line about the merchant's son? — Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: th… · tree and pragmatics description: What's the king's big line about the merchant's son? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 829 «Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends and the trunk burns» 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 was wr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/829-pg27200-part40/t9/) [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/) / [Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/829-pg27200-part40/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends… What's the king's big line about the merchant's son? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** big line · **What happens:** be This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 829 «Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends and the trunk burns» 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/829-pg27200-part40/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t9:1 # text = What's the king's big line about the merchant's son? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the king's big line about the merchant's son | | | | | | tree rules | 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} thou shalt have our daughter and the whole of our kingdom too ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t9:o1:1 # text = thou shalt have our daughter and the whole of our kingdom too 1 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 2 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | shall | thou | our daughter | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} thou shalt have our daughter ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t9:o2:1 # text = thou shalt have our daughter 1 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 2 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | shall | thou | our daughter | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} thou shalt have our daughter if thou canst fly to the moon ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t9:o3:1 # text = thou shalt have our daughter if thou canst fly to the moon 1 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 2 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nsubj _ _ 8 canst can AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | shall | thou | our daughter | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | | 2 | **fly** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | thou | | | | | to the moon *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to moon=Result | ### Option 4 {#o4} thou art a clever lad ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t9:o4:1 # text = thou art a clever lad 1 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 nsubj _ _ 2 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` 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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