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title: Where did the old man go to do himself in, mate? — Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where did the old man go to do himself in, mate? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1257 «Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the old man tries to drown himself, and two Peris appear» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 9 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the o…

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Where did the old man go to do himself in, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old man · **What happens:** go, do · **To what, where:** man

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1257 «Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the old man tries to drown himself, and two Peris appear» 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/1257-pg3282-part58/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t9:1
# text = Where did the old man go to do himself in, mate?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · do-support | the old man |  |  |  |  | mate *vocative* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | the old man *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Eventuality |

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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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a lake by wooded hills

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t9:o1:1
# text = a lake by wooded hills
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	wooded	wood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wood** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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a river by steep rocky cliffs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t9:o2:1
# text = a river by steep rocky cliffs
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a pond near the rocky plain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t9:o3:1
# text = a pond near the rocky plain
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a deep river by steep rocky cliffs at the edge of the jungle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t9:o4:1
# text = a deep river by steep rocky cliffs at the edge of the jungle
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	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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