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title: what was the grub like at the village? — Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26:… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was the grub like at the village? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1889 «Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, King Bayard tells his tale, and a monkey leads the Prince away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, Ki…

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what was the grub like at the village?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** grub · **What happens:** be

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1889 «Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, King Bayard tells his tale, and a monkey leads the Prince away» 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/1889-pg7277-part26/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1889-pg7277-part26:t7:1
# text = what was the grub like at the village?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	grub	grub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the grub like the village |  |  |  |  |  | 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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a dainty little repast, proper posh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1889-pg7277-part26:t7:o1:1
# text = a dainty little repast, proper posh
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	dainty	dainty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	repast	repast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a fancy little meal, quite posh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1889-pg7277-part26:t7:o2:1
# text = a fancy little meal, quite posh
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
some bread, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1889-pg7277-part26:t7:o3:1
# text = some bread, mate
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a plain bowl of soup, rubbish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1889-pg7277-part26:t7:o4:1
# text = a plain bowl of soup, rubbish
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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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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