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title: Bro, what was the mom's ball like every night? — Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen'… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what was the mom's ball like every night? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1721 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45: the Prince serves the Mother Dragon and calls three animal kings» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45:…

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Bro, what was the mom's ball like every night?

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

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1721 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45: the Prince serves the Mother Dragon and calls three animal kings» 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/1721-pg640-part45/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t4:1
# text = Bro, what was the mom's ball like every night?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mom	mom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 | the mom's ball |  |  | night |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A proper ball

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t4:o1:1
# text = A proper ball
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ball	ball	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 shiny bead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t4:o2:1
# text = A shiny bead
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bead	bead	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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Gold, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t4:o3:1
# text = Gold, bro
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A golden orb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t4:o4:1
# text = A golden orb
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	orb	orb	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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