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title: Did the master get back in time, or was it a mardy wait? — English Fairy Tales, The Master and Hi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the master get back in time, or was it a mardy wait? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1953 «English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil: a curious lad calls up a demon and nearly drowns in water» 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 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil: a curious l…

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Did the master get back in time, or was it a mardy wait?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** master · **What happens:** get back, be · **To what, where:** mardy wait

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1953 «English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil: a curious lad calls up a demon and nearly drowns in water» 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/1953-pg7439-part12/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1953-pg7439-part12:t8:1
# text = Did the master get back in time, or was it a mardy wait?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	mardy	mardy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get back** | past · do-support | the master |  |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | master | a mardy wait |  |  |  |  | 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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a bit too late

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1953-pg7439-part12:t8:o1:1
# text = a bit too late
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

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

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just in time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1953-pg7439-part12:t8:o2:1
# text = just in time
1	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	time	time	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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late

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1953-pg7439-part12:t8:o3:1
# text = late
1	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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too late

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1953-pg7439-part12:t8:o4:1
# text = too late
1	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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