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title: Lowkey, what did the thief pretend to be? — Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lowkey, what did the thief pretend to be? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 2 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tr…

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Lowkey, what did the thief pretend to be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** thief · **What happens:** pretend, be

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» 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/1521-pg540-part18/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t2:1
# text = Lowkey, what did the thief pretend to be?
1	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | past · do-support | the thief |  |  |  |  | Lowkey *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | to-infinitive | the thief *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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}

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a swan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t2:o1:1
# text = a swan
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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owl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t2:o2:1
# text = owl
1	owl	owl	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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hen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t2:o3:1
# text = hen
1	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t2:o4:1
# text = a bird
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	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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