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title: Minging day for the miller, innit. What did the servant bring the mi… — Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Minging day for the miller, innit. What did the servant bring the miller at the door? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1702 «Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor miller strikes a bargain with a water spirit» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor mill…

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Minging day for the miller, innit. What did the servant bring the miller at the door?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, servant · **What happens:** ming, innit, bring · **To what, where:** miller, door

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1702 «Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor miller strikes a bargain with a water spirit» 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/1702-pg640-part26/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Minging day for the miller, innit.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1702-pg640-part26:t11:1
# text = Minging day for the miller, innit.
1	Minging	ming	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ming** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  | day | for the miller | tree rules |
| 2 | **innit** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What did the servant bring the miller at the door?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1702-pg640-part26:t11:2
# text = What did the servant bring the miller at the door?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · do-support | the servant | the miller |  | the door |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme miller=Destination |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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word of a funeral

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1702-pg640-part26:t11:o1:1
# text = word of a funeral
1	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **word** |  |  | a funeral |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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a bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1702-pg640-part26:t11:o2:1
# text = a bird
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	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 letter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1702-pg640-part26:t11:o3:1
# text = a letter
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	letter	letter	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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news of a baby boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1702-pg640-part26:t11:o4:1
# text = news of a baby boy
1	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	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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