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description: Dead gross, what was covering the hag's nose when the servants saw her? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1075 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan and the Hag of the Mill, part 43: Mongan turns the hag into a lovely girl and tricks Branduv into swapping wives» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the d
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# Test 12 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan and the Hag of the Mill, par…

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Dead gross, what was covering the hag's nose when the servants saw her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dead gross, servants · **What happens:** cover, see · **To what, where:** nose, hag

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1075 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan and the Hag of the Mill, part 43: Mongan turns the hag into a lovely girl and tricks Branduv into swapping wives» 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/1075-pg2892-part43/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:t12:1
# text = Dead gross, what was covering the hag's nose when the servants saw her?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gross	gross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past · progressive | Dead gross | the hag's nose |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nose=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past | the servants | hag |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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whiskers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:t12:o1:1
# text = whiskers
1	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a beard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:t12:o2:1
# text = a beard
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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a veil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:t12:o3:1
# text = a veil
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	veil	veil	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 hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:t12:o4:1
# text = a hat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hat	hat	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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