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title: So the gardener's son was skint, yeah? — Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the gardener's son was skint, yeah? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1414 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's son cures the old King and asks for a ring» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 1 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's s…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So the gardener's son was skint, yeah?

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

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1414 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's son cures the old King and asks for a ring» 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/1414-pg503-part1/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1414-pg503-part1:t1:1
# text = So the gardener's son was skint, yeah?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	skint	skint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the gardener's son |  |  |  |  | skint *property* | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he had loads

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1414-pg503-part1:t1:o1:1
# text = Nah, he had loads
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | he | loads |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, just copper money and a lame horse, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1414-pg503-part1:t1:o2:1
# text = Yeah, just copper money and a lame horse, mate
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	lame	lame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, just copper money and a proper horse, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1414-pg503-part1:t1:o3:1
# text = Nah, just copper money and a proper horse, mate
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1414-pg503-part1:t1:o4:1
# text = Yeah, mate
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	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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