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title: what's the plough like, was it new and shiny or proper old and rusty — Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's the plough like, was it new and shiny or proper old and rusty Test 8 · ★ of lesson 2082 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 41: Medea helps Jason tame the brazen bulls and sow the dragon's teeth» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Test 8 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 41: Medea helps…

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what's the plough like, was it new and shiny or proper old and rusty

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

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 2082 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 41: Medea helps Jason tame the brazen bulls and sow the dragon's teeth» 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/2082-pg976-part41/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2082-pg976-part41:t8:1
# text = what's the plough like, was it new and shiny or proper old and rusty
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	plough	plough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	rusty	rusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the plough |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the plough |  |  |  |  | new *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the plough *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the plough *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the plough *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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Bright and new

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2082-pg976-part41:t8:o1:1
# text = Bright and new
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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New

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2082-pg976-part41:t8:o2:1
# text = New
1	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Old and rusty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2082-pg976-part41:t8:o3:1
# text = Old and rusty
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	rusty	rusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Shiny

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2082-pg976-part41:t8:o4:1
# text = Shiny
1	Shiny	shiny	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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