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title: Those goblins in blue trousers, were they mates or what? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Egg… · tree and pragmatics
description: Those goblins in blue trousers, were they mates or what? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 2020 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tests her twins with a hen's eggshell and gets her real children back» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tes…

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Those goblins in blue trousers, were they mates or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** goblins · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mates

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 2020 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tests her twins with a hen's eggshell and gets her real children back» 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/2020-pg7885-part39/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2020-pg7885-part39:t7:1
# text = Those goblins in blue trousers, were they mates or what?
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	goblins	goblin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | that goblins in blue trousers | mates |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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They sold their dwarfs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2020-pg7885-part39:t7:o1:1
# text = They sold their dwarfs
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | past | They | their dwarfs |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They fled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2020-pg7885-part39:t7:o2:1
# text = They fled
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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They ate their dwarfs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2020-pg7885-part39:t7:o3:1
# text = They ate their dwarfs
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | They | their dwarfs |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Patient |

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

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They saved their dwarfs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2020-pg7885-part39:t7:o4:1
# text = They saved their dwarfs
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | past | They | their dwarfs |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme |

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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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