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title: Was the wedding bare posh or what? — d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the wedding bare posh or what? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1423 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wedding is spoiled and Bellissima is stolen» 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 wa
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# Test 4 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wed…

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Was the wedding bare posh or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wedding · **What happens:** be

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1423 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wedding is spoiled and Bellissima is stolen» 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/1423-pg503-part10/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t4:1
# text = Was the wedding bare posh or what?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the wedding |  |  |  |  | posh *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}

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Dead boring, nothing much

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t4:o1:1
# text = Dead boring, nothing much
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Dead posh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t4:o2:1
# text = Dead posh
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Dead posh, gold everywhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t4:o3:1
# text = Dead posh, gold everywhere
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Not bad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t4:o4:1
# 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.

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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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