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title: Bruh, so who even is Old Eric? — Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid'… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruh, so who even is Old Eric? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1633 «Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid's son: Hans makes the lake's fish flood the squire's yard and returns with gold from Purgatory» 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 1 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid's son: Hans makes th…

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Bruh, so who even is Old Eric?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Old Eric

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1633 «Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid's son: Hans makes the lake's fish flood the squire's yard and returns with gold from Purgatory» 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/1633-pg5615-part22/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1633-pg5615-part22:t1:1
# text = Bruh, so who even is Old Eric?
1	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Eric	Eric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Old Eric |  |  |  |  | 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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The squire's old wife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1633-pg5615-part22:t1:o1:1
# text = The squire's old wife
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	squire	squire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The porch man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1633-pg5615-part22:t1:o2:1
# text = The porch man
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	porch	porch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	man	man	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 -->
The lake's old guard dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1633-pg5615-part22:t1:o3:1
# text = The lake's old guard dog
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dog	dog	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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The fish boss of the lake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1633-pg5615-part22:t1:o4:1
# text = The fish boss of the lake
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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