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title: bro, what did the gnome dress up as to work for the farmer? — Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gn… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, what did the gnome dress up as to work for the farmer? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1249 «Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle his hills and serves three masters» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle…

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bro, what did the gnome dress up as to work for the farmer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** do, dress up, work · **To what, where:** gnome

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1249 «Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle his hills and serves three masters» 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/1249-pg3282-part50/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1249-pg3282-part50:t2:1
# text = bro, what did the gnome dress up as to work for the farmer?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gnome	gnome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	dress	dress	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | bro | the gnome |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gnome=Eventuality |
| 2 | **dress up** | present | bro |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | bro *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the farmer | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for farmer=Beneficiary |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
an old field labourer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1249-pg3282-part50:t2:o1:1
# text = an old field labourer
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	labourer	labourer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
an old field labourer, like a super humble guy with a patched coat and hat

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1249-pg3282-part50:t2:o2:1
# text = an old field labourer, like a super humble guy with a patched coat and hat
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	labourer	labourer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	super	super	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	patched	patch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **patch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a travelling tinker boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1249-pg3282-part50:t2:o3:1
# text = a travelling tinker boy
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	travelling	travelling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	tinker	tinker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a stable hand, I guess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1249-pg3282-part50:t2:o4:1
# text = a stable hand, I guess
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	guess	guess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | present | I | a stable hand |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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