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title: Bruv, how bad was the King's flute playing, honestly? — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, how bad was the King's flute playing, honestly? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 2039 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 9: the fireworks start to chatter and the Rocket brags about himself» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Test 2 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

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Bruv, how bad was the King's flute playing, honestly?

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

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2039 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 9: the fireworks start to chatter and the Rocket brags about himself» 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/2039-pg902-part9/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:t2:1
# text = Bruv, how bad was the King's flute playing, honestly?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bruv | the King's flute |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | the King's flute *not said here* |  |  |  |  | honestly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Rubbish, but nobody moaned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:t2:o1:1
# text = Rubbish, but nobody moaned
1	Rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
5	moaned	moan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **moan** | past | nobody | Rubbish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Dead average, nobody said

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:t2:o2:1
# text = Dead average, nobody said
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	average	average	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dead average |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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

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Proper rank, but nobody said

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:t2:o3:1
# text = Proper rank, but nobody said
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | nobody | Proper rank *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rank=Topic |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Pretty good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:t2:o4:1
# text = Pretty good
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	good	good	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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**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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