--- title: Real talk, what was the old man told to make in his dream? — pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1:… · tree and pragmatics description: Real talk, what was the old man told to make in his dream? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1777 «pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack, then a dog who digs up gold and is killed by a greedy neighbour» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1777-pg641-part28/t13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1777-pg641-part28/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack,… Real talk, what was the old man told to make in his dream? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Real talk, old man, man · **What happens:** be, tell, make, dream · **To what, where:** old man, dream · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1777 «pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack, then a dog who digs up gold and is killed by a greedy neighbour» 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/1777-pg641-part28/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:t13:1 # text = Real talk, what was the old man told to make in his dream? 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 9 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Real talk | the old man | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | | the old man *not said here* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the old man *not said here* | | | man's dream | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **dream** | | man | | | | | | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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} A spoon ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:t13:o1:1 # text = A spoon 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 spoon spoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} A mortar ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:t13:o2:1 # text = A mortar 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mortar mortar NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A wooden mortar and pestle ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:t13:o3:1 # text = A wooden mortar and pestle 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 mortar mortar NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 pestle pestle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} A large stone mortar for grain ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:t13:o4:1 # text = A large stone mortar for grain 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 mortar mortar NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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