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title: What was the whistle meant to do, mate? — Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the whistle meant to do, mate? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1295 «Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the farmers and sends them to their deaths in the river, and a new tale, The Brown Bear of Norway, begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the far…

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What was the whistle meant to do, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** whistle · **What happens:** be, do

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1295 «Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the farmers and sends them to their deaths in the river, and a new tale, The Brown Bear of Norway, begins» 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/1295-pg3454-part20/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1295-pg3454-part20:t4:1
# text = What was the whistle meant to do, mate?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the whistle |  |  |  |  | mean *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the whistle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | mate *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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bring back the dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1295-pg3454-part20:t4:o1:1
# text = bring back the dead
1	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring back** | imperative | you *not said here* | the dead |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dead=Theme |

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

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wake the dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1295-pg3454-part20:t4:o2:1
# text = wake the dead
1	wake	wake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** | imperative | you *not said here* | the dead |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dead=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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call the sheep home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1295-pg3454-part20:t4:o3:1
# text = call the sheep home
1	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | the sheep |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sheep=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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bring the dead back to life again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1295-pg3454-part20:t4:o4:1
# text = bring the dead back to life again
1	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* | the dead back |  | life | again |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent back=Theme to life=Destination |

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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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