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title: Oi, what's the Miller scared Hans will bang on about? — The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, what's the Miller scared Hans will bang on about? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 2036 «The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets the Miller in spring» 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 was
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# Test 9 · ★ · The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets…

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Oi, what's the Miller scared Hans will bang on about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Miller, Hans · **What happens:** be, scare, bang on

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 2036 «The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets the Miller in spring» 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/2036-pg902-part6/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t9:1
# text = Oi, what's the Miller scared Hans will bang on about?
1	Oi	oi	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Miller	Miller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	scared	scare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	bang	bang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **scare** | past | the Miller |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bang on** | future | Hans |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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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Flour on credit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t9:o1:1
# text = Flour on credit
1	Flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Coal for winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t9:o2:1
# text = Coal for winter
1	Coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A loan of three sacks of good grain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t9:o3:1
# text = A loan of three sacks of good grain
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	loan	loan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **loan** |  |  | three sacks of good grain |  |  |  |  | nom loan «possession transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Free meals for the whole winter season

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t9:o4:1
# text = Free meals for the whole winter season
1	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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