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title: What were the brothers rocking, honestly? — Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife… · tree and pragmatics
description: What were the brothers rocking, honestly? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1080 «Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive in time, Blue Beard dies, and she inherits his wealth» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 7 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive i…

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What were the brothers rocking, honestly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** be, rock · **To what, where:** brothers

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1080 «Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive in time, Blue Beard dies, and she inherits his wealth» 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/1080-pg29021-part5/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:t7:1
# text = What were the brothers rocking, honestly?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	rocking	rock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the brothers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rock** | gerund | the brothers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | honestly *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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two muskets and a cannon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:t7:o1:1
# text = two muskets and a cannon
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	muskets	musket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cannon	cannon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a dragoon's sword and a musqueteer's musket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:t7:o2:1
# text = a dragoon's sword and a musqueteer's musket
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dragoon	dragoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	musqueteer	musqueteer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	musket	musket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a sabre and a pike each

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:t7:o3:1
# text = a sabre and a pike each
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sabre	sabre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a dragoon and a musqueteer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:t7:o4:1
# text = a dragoon and a musqueteer
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dragoon	dragoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	musqueteer	musqueteer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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