--- title: Mate, what's a "ben" even mean, is it like a dug? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the… · tree and pragmatics description: Mate, what's a "ben" even mean, is it like a dug? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1321 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Peronnik saves Nantes with the magic bowl, then a king's son wins a bundle and a giant's bargain» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1321-pg3454-part46/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1321-pg3454-part46/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Pero… Mate, what's a "ben" even mean, is it like a dug? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate, ben · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** ben This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1321 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Peronnik saves Nantes with the magic bowl, then a king's son wins a bundle and a giant's bargain» 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/1321-pg3454-part46/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1321-pg3454-part46:t1:1 # text = Mate, what's a "ben" even mean, is it like a dug? 1 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ben ben NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 even even ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 dug dug NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Mate and a ben | a ben | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | a ben *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | Mate and a ben | | | | | like a dug | tree rules | 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 {#o1} A river ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1321-pg3454-part46:t1:o1:1 # text = A river 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} A high hill or mountain top ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1321-pg3454-part46:t1:o2:1 # text = A high hill or mountain top 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A deep valley by the sea ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1321-pg3454-part46:t1:o3:1 # text = A deep valley by the sea 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 valley valley NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} A hill ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1321-pg3454-part46:t1:o4:1 # text = A hill 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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