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title: Blud, who was the old white rat, then? — Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Blud, who was the old white rat, then? Test 9 · ★ 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
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# Test 9 · ★ · Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becom…

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Blud, who was the old white rat, then?

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

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1552-pg540-part49:t9:1
# text = Blud, who was the old white rat, then?
1	Blud	Blud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	dislocated	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the old white rat |  |  | then | Blud *dislocated* | 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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Friend Blanchet, the old white king of all the rats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1552-pg540-part49:t9:o1:1
# text = Friend Blanchet, the old white king of all the rats
1	Friend	friend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Blanchet	Blanchet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **friend** | imperative | you *not said here* | Blanchet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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Friend Blanchet, the king of the rats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1552-pg540-part49:t9:o2:1
# text = Friend Blanchet, the king of the rats
1	Friend	friend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Blanchet	Blanchet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **friend** | imperative | you *not said here* | Blanchet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Friend Brown, the rat of the cellar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1552-pg540-part49:t9:o3:1
# text = Friend Brown, the rat of the cellar
1	Friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Brown	Brown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Friend Blanchet, the Counsellor's rat who led them out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1552-pg540-part49:t9:o4:1
# text = Friend Blanchet, the Counsellor's rat who led them out
1	Friend	friend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Blanchet	Blanchet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Counsellor	Counsellor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **friend** | imperative | you *not said here* | Blanchet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead out** | past | the Counsellor's rat | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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