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title: Mate, what was the lad's job at the palace? — Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what was the lad's job at the palace? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1576 «Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the brother fetches his sister, and they set sail with the stepmother» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the broth…

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Mate, what was the lad's job at the palace?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** job, palace

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1576 «Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the brother fetches his sister, and they set sail with the stepmother» 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/1576-pg540-part73/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t6:1
# text = Mate, what was the lad's job at the palace?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	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	6	det	_	_
6	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mate and the lad's job | the lad's job |  | the palace |  |  | 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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cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t6:o1:1
# text = cook
1	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
groom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t6:o2:1
# text = groom
1	groom	groom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
page boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t6:o3:1
# text = page boy
1	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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stable-boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t6:o4:1
# text = stable-boy
1	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	boy	boy	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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