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title: Be honest, was the soldier's story well good or totally boring? — Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be honest, was the soldier's story well good or totally boring? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1316 «Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plouhinec, part 1: a beggar comes to the Christmas supper» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 1 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plouhinec, part 1: a beg…

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Be honest, was the soldier's story well good or totally boring?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** story

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1316 «Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plouhinec, part 1: a beggar comes to the Christmas supper» 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/1316-pg3454-part41/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1316-pg3454-part41:t1:1
# text = Be honest, was the soldier's story well good or totally boring?
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the soldier's story |  |  |  |  | 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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Quite dull, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1316-pg3454-part41:t1:o1:1
# text = Quite dull, mate
1	Quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Not bad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1316-pg3454-part41:t1:o2:1
# text = Not bad
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Boring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1316-pg3454-part41:t1:o3:1
# text = Boring
1	Boring	boring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Well good, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1316-pg3454-part41:t1:o4:1
# text = Well good, mate
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
```

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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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