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title: Bro, what was the last errand? — Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what was the last errand? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1658 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47: Esben steals the witch's lamp and is sent for a coverlet» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 9 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47…

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Bro, what was the last errand?

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

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1658 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47: Esben steals the witch's lamp and is sent for a coverlet» 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/1658-pg5615-part47/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1658-pg5615-part47:t9:1
# text = Bro, what was the last errand?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	errand	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bro and the last errand | the last errand |  |  |  |  | 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 pot that sings over eight kingdoms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1658-pg5615-part47:t9:o1:1
# text = a pot that sings over eight kingdoms
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | a pot | eight kingdoms |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kingdom=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a bell that rings over seven kingdoms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1658-pg5615-part47:t9:o2:1
# text = a bell that rings over seven kingdoms
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rings	ring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | present | a bell | seven kingdoms |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kingdom=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a lamp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1658-pg5615-part47:t9:o3:1
# text = a lamp
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a coverlet that sounds over eight kingdoms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1658-pg5615-part47:t9:o4:1
# text = a coverlet that sounds over eight kingdoms
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present | a coverlet | eight kingdoms |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kingdom=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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