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title: Yo, what was the soldier's nickname, like? — Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what was the soldier's nickname, like? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1898 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent with a woman's head asks for help» 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 wa
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# Test 5 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent w…

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Yo, what was the soldier's nickname, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** nickname

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1898 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent with a woman's head asks for help» 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/1898-pg7277-part35/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:t5:1
# text = Yo, what was the soldier's nickname, like?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	nickname	nickname	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the soldier's nickname |  |  |  |  | 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}

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The Kinglet of the Burnt Hearth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:t5:o1:1
# text = The Kinglet of the Burnt Hearth
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Kinglet	Kinglet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Brave Lad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:t5:o2:1
# text = The Brave Lad
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Boss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:t5:o3:1
# text = Boss
1	Boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The Kinglet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:t5:o4:1
# text = The Kinglet
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Kinglet	Kinglet	PROPN	NNP	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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