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title: Yo, who was that bloke Fanfaronade working for, innit? — Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, who was that bloke Fanfaronade working for, innit? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1508 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy procession, a cursed scarf, a midnight escape by boat» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 1 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy pro…

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Yo, who was that bloke Fanfaronade working for, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bloke · **What happens:** work, be

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1508 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy procession, a cursed scarf, a midnight escape by boat» 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/1508-pg540-part5/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:t1:1
# text = Yo, who was that bloke Fanfaronade working for, innit?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | gerund | bloke *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | bloke *obl:unmarked*; innit *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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Prince Florimond

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:t1:o1:1
# text = Prince Florimond
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Florimond	Florimond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the Duke of Bruges

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:t1:o2:1
# text = the Duke of Bruges
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Bruges	Bruges	PROPN	NNP	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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the Queen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:t1:o3:1
# text = the Queen
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	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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King Merlin's son

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:t1:o4:1
# text = King Merlin's son
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Merlin	Merlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	son	son	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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