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title: Was the youngest son proper brave or just lucky? — Roumanian Tales, The Norka, part 28: P… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the youngest son proper brave or just lucky? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1531 «Roumanian Tales, The Norka, part 28: Prince Ivan slays the Norka underground and brings his sisters up» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 4 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, The Norka, part 28: Prince Ivan slays the…

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Was the youngest son proper brave or just lucky?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** youngest son

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1531 «Roumanian Tales, The Norka, part 28: Prince Ivan slays the Norka underground and brings his sisters up» 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/1531-pg540-part28/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1531-pg540-part28:t4:1
# text = Was the youngest son proper brave or just lucky?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the youngest son |  |  |  |  | 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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Lucky, he found the hole by chance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1531-pg540-part28:t4:o1:1
# text = Lucky, he found the hole by chance
1	Lucky	Lucky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Lucky | the hole |  |  |  | by chance | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Topic |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Brave, he went out alone at midnight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1531-pg540-part28:t4:o2:1
# text = Brave, he went out alone at midnight
1	Brave	brave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | he |  |  |  | midnight | Brave *vocative*; alone, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Brave, he went out alone at midnight into the dark deer park

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1531-pg540-part28:t4:o3:1
# text = Brave, he went out alone at midnight into the dark deer park
1	Brave	brave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | he |  |  | the dark deer park | midnight | Brave *vocative*; alone, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Brave, he went out alone at midnight with no help from anyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1531-pg540-part28:t4:o4:1
# text = Brave, he went out alone at midnight with no help from anyone
1	Brave	brave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | he |  |  | anyone | midnight | with no help; Brave *vocative*; alone, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with help=Co-Agent |

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