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title: who was the best helper then, the mouse or the frog? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golde… · tree and pragmatics
description: who was the best helper then, the mouse or the frog? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1955 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle is found and carried away over the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle…

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who was the best helper then, the mouse or the frog?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** best helper

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1955 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle is found and carried away over the sea» 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/1955-pg7439-part14/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1955-pg7439-part14:t11:1
# text = who was the best helper then, the mouse or the frog?
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	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	helper	helper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	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 best helper |  |  | 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}

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The frog, he was really useful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1955-pg7439-part14:t11:o1:1
# text = The frog, he was really useful
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the frog |  |  |  |  | useful *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The mouse, he did the most work

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1955-pg7439-part14:t11:o2:1
# text = The mouse, he did the most work
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the mouse | the work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Both, they were both proper useful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1955-pg7439-part14:t11:o3:1
# text = Both, they were both proper useful
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	both	both	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Both |  |  |  |  | both, useful *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The frog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1955-pg7439-part14:t11:o4:1
# text = The frog
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	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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