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title: so the brothers were well lazy, weren't they? — West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief,… · tree and pragmatics
description: so the brothers were well lazy, weren't they? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1160 «West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is crowned by a lion; Pinkel escapes a witch» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 11 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is cr…

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so the brothers were well lazy, weren't they?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** brothers

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1160 «West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is crowned by a lion; Pinkel escapes a witch» 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/1160-pg3027-part26/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t11:1
# text = so the brothers were well lazy, weren't they?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the brothers |  |  |  |  | lazy, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | 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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aye, dead lazy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t11:o1:1
# text = aye, dead lazy
1	aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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aye

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t11:o2:1
# text = aye
1	aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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aye, dead idle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t11:o3:1
# text = aye, dead idle
1	aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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naw

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t11:o4:1
# text = naw
1	naw	naw	INTJ	UH	_	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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