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title: was the eldest bro gonna be a blacksmith or a barber? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: was the eldest bro gonna be a blacksmith or a barber? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1624 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror breaks and Kay gets a splinter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror b…

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was the eldest bro gonna be a blacksmith or a barber?

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

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1624 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror breaks and Kay gets a splinter» 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/1624-pg5615-part13/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1624-pg5615-part13:t12:1
# text = was the eldest bro gonna be a blacksmith or a barber?
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	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	gonna	gonna	X	FW	_	8	compound	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	barber	barber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 eldest bro |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive |  | a gonna blacksmith or a barber |  |  |  |  | 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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a carpenter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1624-pg5615-part13:t12:o1:1
# text = a carpenter
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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a blacksmith

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1624-pg5615-part13:t12:o2:1
# text = a blacksmith
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a baker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1624-pg5615-part13:t12:o3:1
# text = a baker
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	baker	baker	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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a shoemaker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1624-pg5615-part13:t12:o4:1
# text = a shoemaker
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shoemaker	shoemaker	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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