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title: what did the poor bro cover his house with? — Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the poor bro cover his house with? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1446 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper buys the magic mill for salt» 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 was 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper…

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what did the poor bro cover his house with?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** poor bro · **What happens:** cover · **To what, where:** house

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1446 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper buys the magic mill for salt» 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/1446-pg503-part33/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1446-pg503-part33:t7:1
# text = what did the poor bro cover his house with?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past · do-support | the poor bro | bro's house |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Plates of gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1446-pg503-part33:t7:o1:1
# text = Plates of gold
1	Plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Thick plates of gold and silver from the rich brother's cellar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1446-pg503-part33:t7:o2:1
# text = Thick plates of gold and silver from the rich brother's cellar
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Heavy plates of pure gold nailed to every wall and beam of the roof

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1446-pg503-part33:t7:o3:1
# text = Heavy plates of pure gold nailed to every wall and beam of the roof
1	Heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	nailed	nail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nail** | participle |  | Heavy plates of pure gold *not said here* |  |  |  | to every wall and beam of the roof | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to wall=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **beam** |  |  | the roof |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sheets of silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1446-pg503-part33:t7:o4:1
# text = Sheets of silver
1	Sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	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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