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title: yo who was the old dude at helga's wedding? — pg3282, Geirald and Rosald: Geirald hi… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo who was the old dude at helga's wedding? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1221 «pg3282, Geirald and Rosald: Geirald hides under his bed and Rosald wins the queen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · pg3282, Geirald and Rosald: Geirald hides under his bed an…

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yo who was the old dude at helga's wedding?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** yo, helga · **What happens:** be, wed · **To what, where:** old dude, wedding

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1221 «pg3282, Geirald and Rosald: Geirald hides under his bed and Rosald wins the queen» 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/1221-pg3282-part22/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1221-pg3282-part22:t8:1
# text = yo who was the old dude at helga's wedding?
1	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	helga	helga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	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 a** | past | yo | the old dude |  | helga's wedding |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wed** |  | helga |  |  |  |  |  | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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Sigmund

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1221-pg3282-part22:t8:o1:1
# text = Sigmund
1	Sigmund	Sigmund	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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the old man Hábogi, who was the god

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1221-pg3282-part22:t8:o2:1
# text = the old man Hábogi, who was the god
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Hábogi	Hábogi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the old man and the god | the god |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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Hábogi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1221-pg3282-part22:t8:o3:1
# text = Hábogi
1	Hábogi	Hábogi	PROPN	NNP	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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Hrafn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1221-pg3282-part22:t8:o4:1
# text = Hrafn
1	Hrafn	Hrafn	PROPN	NNP	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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