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title: What was in the bloke's dish, like, the nasty stuff? — Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was in the bloke's dish, like, the nasty stuff? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1585 «Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and Sigurd dies» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and…

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What was in the bloke's dish, like, the nasty stuff?

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

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1585 «Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and Sigurd dies» 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/1585-pg540-part82/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t6:1
# text = What was in the bloke's dish, like, the nasty stuff?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the bloke's dish and the nasty stuff |  |  | 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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Dragon blood and wolf meat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t6:o1:1
# text = Dragon blood and wolf meat
1	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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Serpent venom and wolf meat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t6:o2:1
# text = Serpent venom and wolf meat
1	Serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Poison stuff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t6:o3:1
# text = Poison stuff
1	Poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Poison

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t6:o4:1
# text = Poison
1	Poison	poison	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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