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title: wait, so who's the old gran by the brook, like, proper dodgy? — Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fi… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, so who's the old gran by the brook, like, proper dodgy? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1869 «Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fiordelisa climbs, is carried by doves, and sells the bracelets» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fiordelisa climbs, is…

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wait, so who's the old gran by the brook, like, proper dodgy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** old gran

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1869 «Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fiordelisa climbs, is carried by doves, and sells the bracelets» 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/1869-pg7277-part6/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:t2:1
# text = wait, so who's the old gran by the brook, like, proper dodgy?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|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	gran	gran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the old gran |  |  |  | by the brook | 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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a fairy in disguise who wants to test her kindness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:t2:o1:1
# text = a fairy in disguise who wants to test her kindness
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	test	test	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | disguise |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **test** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | disguise *not said here* | fairy's kindness |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kindness=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a fairy in disguise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:t2:o2:1
# text = a fairy in disguise
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
some old beggar lady

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:t2:o3:1
# text = some old beggar lady
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a sneaky gnome bloke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:t2:o4:1
# text = a sneaky gnome bloke
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	gnome	gnome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bloke	bloke	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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