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title: bruh, was the show at the inn a comedy or a tragedy? — Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Compa… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh, was the show at the inn a comedy or a tragedy? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1007 «Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John pays for a dead man's rest, then the salve mends a broken doll» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John…

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bruh, was the show at the inn a comedy or a tragedy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** show, inn

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1007 «Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John pays for a dead man's rest, then the salve mends a broken doll» 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/1007-pg27200-part218/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:t10:1
# text = bruh, was the show at the inn a comedy or a tragedy?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	comedy	comedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tragedy	tragedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the show |  | the inn |  |  | 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 tragedy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:t10:o1:1
# text = a tragedy
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tragedy	tragedy	NOUN	NN	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a comedy, not sad at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:t10:o2:1
# text = a comedy, not sad at all
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	comedy	comedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a comedy, quite funny

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:t10:o3:1
# text = a comedy, quite funny
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	comedy	comedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a tragedy, very sad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:t10:o4:1
# text = a tragedy, very sad
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tragedy	tragedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
```

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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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