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title: Was the piper sly or what, mate? — Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the piper sly or what, mate? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1552 «Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becomes king, and the piper clears Hamel of rats, then the children vanish» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 8 · ★ · Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becom…

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Was the piper sly or what, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** piper

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1552 «Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becomes king, and the piper clears Hamel of rats, then the children vanish» 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/1552-pg540-part49/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1552-pg540-part49:t8:1
# text = Was the piper sly or what, mate?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	piper	piper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	csubj	_	_
4	sly	sly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the piper |  |  |  |  | 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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Dead sly, with those mocking eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1552-pg540-part49:t8:o1:1
# text = Dead sly, with those mocking eyes
1	Dead	dead	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sly	sly	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	mocking	mocking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Proper sly, with a grin and a wink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1552-pg540-part49:t8:o2:1
# text = Proper sly, with a grin and a wink
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sly	sly	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	grin	grin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wink	wink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Dead sly, yeah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1552-pg540-part49:t8:o3:1
# text = Dead sly, yeah
1	Dead	dead	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sly	sly	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Proper sly, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1552-pg540-part49:t8:o4:1
# text = Proper sly, mate
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sly	sly	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
```

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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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