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title: Who was the proper legend on the battlefield then? — Fairy Book, Mannikin, part 29: a mocke… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was the proper legend on the battlefield then? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1892 «Fairy Book, Mannikin, part 29: a mocked Ambassador, a war, and Brandatimor defeated» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice w
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# Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Book, Mannikin, part 29: a mocked Ambassador, a war,…

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Who was the proper legend on the battlefield then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** proper legend, battlefield

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1892 «Fairy Book, Mannikin, part 29: a mocked Ambassador, a war, and Brandatimor defeated» 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/1892-pg7277-part29/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1892-pg7277-part29:t5:1
# text = Who was the proper legend on the battlefield then?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	battlefield	battlefield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the proper legend |  | the battlefield | then |  | 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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The spaniels, they were class

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1892-pg7277-part29:t5:o1:1
# text = The spaniels, they were class
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spaniels	spaniel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | spaniels *= spaniel* | class |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mannikin, he was dead good at it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1892-pg7277-part29:t5:o2:1
# text = Mannikin, he was dead good at it
1	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mannikin, proper legend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1892-pg7277-part29:t5:o3:1
# text = Mannikin, proper legend
1	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Brandatimor, he was pretty decent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1892-pg7277-part29:t5:o4:1
# text = Brandatimor, he was pretty decent
1	Brandatimor	Brandatimor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	decent	decent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Brandatimor |  |  |  |  | decent, pretty *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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