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title: Who were Fair, Brown, and Trembling, anyway? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and T… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who were Fair, Brown, and Trembling, anyway? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 2011 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cucullin is tricked, and Trembling rides to church» 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 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cu…

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Who were Fair, Brown, and Trembling, anyway?

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

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2011 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cucullin is tricked, and Trembling rides to church» 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/2011-pg7885-part30/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2011-pg7885-part30:t6:1
# text = Who were Fair, Brown, and Trembling, anyway?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Trembling	Trembling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | anyway, fair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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The king's three daughters, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2011-pg7885-part30:t6:o1:1
# text = The king's three daughters, mate
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Daughters of the local lord, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2011-pg7885-part30:t6:o2:1
# text = Daughters of the local lord, mate
1	Daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The sisters, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2011-pg7885-part30:t6:o3:1
# text = The sisters, mate
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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}

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Three princesses from the king, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2011-pg7885-part30:t6:o4:1
# text = Three princesses from the king, bro
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	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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