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title: dude, where did the boy end up working? — Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon… · tree and pragmatics
description: dude, where did the boy end up working? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1845 «Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, part 29: Katar hides the prince, then the prince becomes a poor servant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 10 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, pa…

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dude, where did the boy end up working?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy, dude · **What happens:** be, end up, work

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1845 «Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, part 29: Katar hides the prince, then the prince becomes a poor servant» 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/1845-pg7128-part29/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t10:1
# text = dude, where did the boy end up working?
1	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **end up** | present | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **work** | gerund | dude |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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for a rich trader

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t10:o1:1
# text = for a rich trader
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	trader	trader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
for a cloth seller

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t10:o2:1
# text = for a cloth seller
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	seller	seller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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for a grain merchant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t10:o3:1
# text = for a grain merchant
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	merchant	merchant	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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for a grain merchant in the market

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t10:o4:1
# text = for a grain merchant in the market
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	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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