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title: Mate, what were the brothers wearing on their chests? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what were the brothers wearing on their chests? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1020 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud prince is beaten by a gnat; a wicked queen plots against Eliza» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud…

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Mate, what were the brothers wearing on their chests?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate, brothers · **What happens:** be, wear · **To what, where:** brothers, chests

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1020 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud prince is beaten by a gnat; a wicked queen plots against Eliza» 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/1020-pg27200-part231/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t13:1
# text = Mate, what were the brothers wearing on their chests?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
7	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	chests	chest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mate | the brothers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** | gerund | the brothers *not said here* |  |  | brothers's chests |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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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A golden star shining on each chest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t13:o1:1
# text = A golden star shining on each chest
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | gerund | a golden star *not said here* |  |  | each chest |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chest=Location |

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

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A star

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t13:o2:1
# text = A star
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A badge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t13:o3:1
# text = A badge
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	badge	badge	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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A cross

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t13:o4:1
# text = A cross
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cross	cross	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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