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title: Who was the oldest fish in the tribe, mate? — Book of Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was the oldest fish in the tribe, mate? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1303 «Book of Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son: the princess saves the true winner and chooses him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Test 10 · ★ · Book of Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son: the princess saves th…

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Who was the oldest fish in the tribe, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** oldest fish, tribe

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1303 «Book of Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son: the princess saves the true winner and chooses him» 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/1303-pg3454-part28/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1303-pg3454-part28:t10:1
# text = Who was the oldest fish in the tribe, mate?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
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	5	det	_	_
4	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the oldest fish |  | the tribe |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Old Thuggai, the eldest of the tribe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1303-pg3454-part28:t10:o1:1
# text = Old Thuggai, the eldest of the tribe
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Thuggai	Thuggai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Grandfather Thuggai of the river fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1303-pg3454-part28:t10:o2:1
# text = Grandfather Thuggai of the river fish
1	Grandfather	grandfather	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Thuggai	Thuggai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grandfather** | imperative | you *not said here* | Thuggai |  |  |  | of the river fish | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Thuggai

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1303-pg3454-part28:t10:o3:1
# text = Thuggai
1	Thuggai	Thuggai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Dorran

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1303-pg3454-part28:t10:o4:1
# text = Dorran
1	Dorran	Dorran	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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