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title: yo fam, what was the bailiff's job in town? — Lapland Tales, Andras Baive, part 60:… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo fam, what was the bailiff's job in town? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1194 «Lapland Tales, Andras Baive, part 60: the bailiff chases Andras, who outwits him with reindeer magic and a daring leap» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 12 · ★ · Lapland Tales, Andras Baive, part 60: the bailiff chases A…

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yo fam, what was the bailiff's job in town?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fam · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** job, town

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1194 «Lapland Tales, Andras Baive, part 60: the bailiff chases Andras, who outwits him with reindeer magic and a daring leap» 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/1194-pg3027-part60/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1194-pg3027-part60:t12:1
# text = yo fam, what was the bailiff's job in town?
1	yo	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Slng	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bailiff	bailiff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | yo's fam and the bailiff's job | the bailiff's job |  | town |  |  | 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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Sheriff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1194-pg3027-part60:t12:o1:1
# text = Sheriff
1	Sheriff	sheriff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Town bailiff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1194-pg3027-part60:t12:o2:1
# text = Town bailiff
1	Town	town	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bailiff	bailiff	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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Town clerk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1194-pg3027-part60:t12:o3:1
# text = Town clerk
1	Town	town	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	clerk	clerk	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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Judge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1194-pg3027-part60:t12:o4:1
# text = Judge
1	Judge	judge	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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