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# Test 8 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

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bro, Melinette warned Grumedan about being a bit of a dick, what's the big threat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Melinette, bit · **What happens:** warn, be · **To what, where:** Grumedan, big threat

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1880 «Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 17: Grumedan dazzles Potentilla with flowers, frogs and pearls, and Narcissus answers with a nightingale» 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/1880-pg7277-part17/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1880-pg7277-part17:t8:1
# text = bro, Melinette warned Grumedan about being a bit of a dick, what's the big threat?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Melinette	Melinette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	warned	warn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Grumedan	Grumedan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dick	dick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	threat	threat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | Melinette |  | Grumedan |  |  | bro *vocative* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grumedan=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about a bit and the big threat; of a dick | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a bit and the big threat | the big threat |  |  |  |  | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a thousand years in the nick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1880-pg7277-part17:t8:o1:1
# text = a thousand years in the nick
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nick	nick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the nick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1880-pg7277-part17:t8:o2:1
# text = the nick
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nick	nick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a thousand years locked up in a tree with no wand and no frogs, bruv

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1880-pg7277-part17:t8:o3:1
# text = a thousand years locked up in a tree with no wand and no frogs, bruv
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock up** | participle |  |  |  | a tree with no wand and no frogs and bruv | year |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a fine, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1880-pg7277-part17:t8:o4:1
# text = a fine, innit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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

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