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title: Lol, whose slave is begging on the palace steps? — Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of H… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, whose slave is begging on the palace steps? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 999 «Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people suffer for their gifts» 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 wron
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people s…

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Lol, whose slave is begging on the palace steps?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** slave · **What happens:** beg

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 999 «Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people suffer for their gifts» 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/999-pg27200-part210/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t3:1
# text = Lol, whose slave is begging on the palace steps?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | present · progressive | slave |  |  |  |  | on the palace steps | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |

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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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Petrarch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t3:o1:1
# text = Petrarch
1	Petrarch	Petrarch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Camoens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t3:o2:1
# text = Camoens
1	Camoens	camoen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Lope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t3:o3:1
# text = Lope
1	Lope	lope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Dante

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t3:o4:1
# text = Dante
1	Dante	dante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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