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title: mate, was the graveyard lowkey creepy or just dead quiet? — Tales of the Punjab, Raja Rasalu, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: mate, was the graveyard lowkey creepy or just dead quiet? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1841 «Tales of the Punjab, Raja Rasalu, part 25: a mocking prince, a talking corpse, a clever cricket» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 3 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Raja Rasalu, part 25: a mocking princ…

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mate, was the graveyard lowkey creepy or just dead quiet?

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

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1841 «Tales of the Punjab, Raja Rasalu, part 25: a mocking prince, a talking corpse, a clever cricket» 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/1841-pg7128-part25/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1841-pg7128-part25:t3:1
# text = mate, was the graveyard lowkey creepy or just dead quiet?
1	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	creepy	creepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
11	quiet	quiet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | mate | creepy quiet |  |  |  |  | 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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it was creepy as anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1841-pg7128-part25:t3:o1:1
# text = it was creepy as anything
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	creepy	creepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | as anything; creepy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it was dead silent, no sound

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1841-pg7128-part25:t3:o2:1
# text = it was dead silent, no sound
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | no sound *obl*; silent *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
quite creepy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1841-pg7128-part25:t3:o3:1
# text = quite creepy
1	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	creepy	creepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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it was quiet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1841-pg7128-part25:t3:o4:1
# text = it was quiet
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |

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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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