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title: Mate, was Ivell sipping mead or ale at the banquet? — Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, was Ivell sipping mead or ale at the banquet? Test 4 · ★ 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 dependency tree and pr
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# Test 4 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan and the Hag of the Mill, par…

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Mate, was Ivell sipping mead or ale at the banquet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ivell · **What happens:** sip · **To what, where:** mead, banquet

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:t4:1
# text = Mate, was Ivell sipping mead or ale at the banquet?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Ivell	Ivell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sipping	sip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	mead	mead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sip** | past · progressive | Ivell | mead or ale |  | the banquet |  | Mate *vocative* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mead=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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mead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:t4:o1:1
# text = mead
1	mead	mead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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tea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:t4:o2:1
# text = tea
1	tea	tea	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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ale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:t4:o3:1
# text = ale
1	ale	ale	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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cider

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:t4:o4:1
# text = cider
1	cider	cider	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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