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title: Wait, what's a byre anyway, like a bedroom? — Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mast… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what's a byre anyway, like a bedroom? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1445 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid: the bailiff is tricked into chasing a calf all night, and at last the wedding is held» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 5 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid: the bailiff…

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Wait, what's a byre anyway, like a bedroom?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** byre

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1445 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid: the bailiff is tricked into chasing a calf all night, and at last the wedding is held» 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/1445-pg503-part32/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1445-pg503-part32:t5:1
# text = Wait, what's a byre anyway, like a bedroom?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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	byre	byre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	1	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	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a bedroom; anyway *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a byre |  |  |  |  | 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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A barn for hay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1445-pg503-part32:t5:o1:1
# text = A barn for hay
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A bedroom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1445-pg503-part32:t5:o2:1
# text = A bedroom
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A shed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1445-pg503-part32:t5:o3:1
# text = A shed
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shed	shed	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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A cowshed, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1445-pg503-part32:t5:o4:1
# text = A cowshed, bruv
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cowshed	cowshed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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