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title: that ring was bling, right? whose was it before? — World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Wa… · tree and pragmatics
description: that ring was bling, right? whose was it before? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1219 «World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1: two friends ride off, Rosald wins the fight, and Geirald takes the glory» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 3 · ★ · World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1:…

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that ring was bling, right? whose was it before?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ring · **What happens:** be

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1219 «World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1: two friends ride off, Rosald wins the fight, and Geirald takes the glory» 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/1219-pg3282-part20/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1219-pg3282-part20:t3:1
# text = that ring was bling, right? whose was it before?
1	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	bling	bling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
8	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	before	before	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | that ring |  |  |  |  | bling *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | ring |  |  |  |  | before *property* | 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 {#o1}

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his dad's old friend's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1219-pg3282-part20:t3:o1:1
# text = his dad's old friend's
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the robber chief's, taken from a dead merchant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1219-pg3282-part20:t3:o2:1
# text = the robber chief's, taken from a dead merchant
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | participle |  | the robber chief *not said here* |  | a dead merchant |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from merchant=Initial\_Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the robber chief's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1219-pg3282-part20:t3:o3:1
# text = the robber chief's
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the robber chief's, from his own hand that morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1219-pg3282-part20:t3:o4:1
# text = the robber chief's, from his own hand that morning
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	det	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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

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