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title: yo, so who is the old lady actually? — Popular Tales from the Norse, Soria Mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo, so who is the old lady actually? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1512 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Soria Moria Castle, part 9: Halvor's parents know him, then the Princesses vanish and he sets out again» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 2 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Soria Moria Castle, part 9:…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yo, so who is the old lady actually?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** old lady

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1512 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Soria Moria Castle, part 9: Halvor's parents know him, then the Princesses vanish and he sets out again» 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/1512-pg540-part9/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1512-pg540-part9:t2:1
# text = yo, so who is the old lady actually?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the old lady |  |  |  | actually *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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a random lady, no cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1512-pg540-part9:t2:o1:1
# text = a random lady, no cap
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	random	random	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
his nan, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1512-pg540-part9:t2:o2:1
# text = his nan, lol
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Halvor's mum, no cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1512-pg540-part9:t2:o3:1
# text = Halvor's mum, no cap
1	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
some witch, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1512-pg540-part9:t2:o4:1
# text = some witch, lol
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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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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