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title: who's Adam in the garden, according to Mark Twain, like? — The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad,… · tree and pragmatics
description: who's Adam in the garden, according to Mark Twain, like? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1276 «The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy's mother saves up to send him to school and then to a trade» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 11 · ★ · The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy…

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who's Adam in the garden, according to Mark Twain, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, accord · **To what, where:** Adam, garden

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1276 «The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy's mother saves up to send him to school and then to a trade» 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/1276-pg3454-part1/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1276-pg3454-part1:t11:1
# text = who's Adam in the garden, according to Mark Twain, like?
1	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	Adam	Adam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	case	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	Twain	Twain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Adam and Mark |  | the garden |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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Mark Twain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1276-pg3454-part1:t11:o1:1
# text = Mark Twain
1	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Twain	Twain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

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

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Andrew Lang

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1276-pg3454-part1:t11:o2:1
# text = Andrew Lang
1	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Miss Thackeray

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1276-pg3454-part1:t11:o3:1
# text = Miss Thackeray
1	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Thackeray	Thackeray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Twain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1276-pg3454-part1:t11:o4:1
# text = Twain
1	Twain	Twain	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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