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title: Mate, who was the proper mingebag at supper, Martin or Michael? — Olive Fairy Book, The Three Treasures… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, who was the proper mingebag at supper, Martin or Michael? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1166 «Olive Fairy Book, The Three Treasures of the Giants, part 1: three brothers find a castle of money, and Jack gets the last word» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Test 1 · ★ · Olive Fairy Book, The Three Treasures of the Giants, part…

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Mate, who was the proper mingebag at supper, Martin or Michael?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** proper mingebag, supper

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1166 «Olive Fairy Book, The Three Treasures of the Giants, part 1: three brothers find a castle of money, and Jack gets the last word» 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/1166-pg3027-part32/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1166-pg3027-part32:t1:1
# text = Mate, who was the proper mingebag at supper, Martin or Michael?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mingebag	mingebag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	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 and the proper mingebag | the proper mingebag |  | supper |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Martin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1166-pg3027-part32:t1:o1:1
# text = Martin
1	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	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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Michael

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1166-pg3027-part32:t1:o2:1
# text = Michael
1	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	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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Both of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1166-pg3027-part32:t1:o3:1
# text = Both of them
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Michael, the middle brother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1166-pg3027-part32:t1:o4:1
# text = Michael, the middle brother
1	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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