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title: Bro, what did the devil look like? — Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did the devil look like? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1675 «Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the oven» 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 right.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the o…

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Bro, what did the devil look like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** devil · **What happens:** look · **To what, where:** Bro

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1675 «Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the oven» 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/1675-pg5615-part64/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1675-pg5615-part64:t8:1
# text = Bro, what did the devil look like?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · do-support | the devil | Bro |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a handsome man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1675-pg5615-part64:t8:o1:1
# text = a handsome man
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
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 2 {#o2}

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a fine gentleman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1675-pg5615-part64:t8:o2:1
# text = a fine gentleman
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gentleman	gentleman	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 -->
a dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1675-pg5615-part64:t8:o3:1
# text = a dog
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	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 {#o4}

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a bear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1675-pg5615-part64:t8:o4:1
# text = a bear
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bear	bear	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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