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title: Which place did those husbands live in, mate? — Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which place did those husbands live in, mate? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 8 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: t…

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Which place did those husbands live in, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** place, husbands · **What happens:** do, live · **To what, where:** mate

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» 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/1247-pg3282-part48/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t8:1
# text = Which place did those husbands live in, mate?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	husbands	husband	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which place |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | that husbands |  |  | mate |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mate=Location |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A village on a plain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t8:o1:1
# text = A village on a plain
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A small village on the edge of a dry desert plain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t8:o2:1
# text = A small village on the edge of a dry desert plain
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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A little village in the middle of a great forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t8:o3:1
# text = A little village in the middle of a great forest
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A village by a lake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t8:o4:1
# text = A village by a lake
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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