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title: Mate, what's a bushel even, like a bag of sweets? — Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mast… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what's a bushel even, like a bag of sweets? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1444 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: the Prince forgets his promise, and three suitors are tricked» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 3 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: th…

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Mate, what's a bushel even, like a bag of sweets?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** bushel

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1444 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: the Prince forgets his promise, and three suitors are tricked» 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/1444-pg503-part31/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1444-pg503-part31:t3:1
# text = Mate, what's a bushel even, like a bag of sweets?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bushel	bushel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mate and a bushel and a bag of sweets | a bushel |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a large sack of wheat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1444-pg503-part31:t3:o1:1
# text = a large sack of wheat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a measure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1444-pg503-part31:t3:o2:1
# text = a measure
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a dry measure for grain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1444-pg503-part31:t3:o3:1
# text = a dry measure for grain
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a bag of sweets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1444-pg503-part31:t3:o4:1
# text = a bag of sweets
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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