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title: Who was sat at the table in the hill, mate? — English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was sat at the table in the hill, mate? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 236 «English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's chores, loses the groats to a robber, and the couple wins them back» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's c…

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Who was sat at the table in the hill, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** sit · **To what, where:** table

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 236 «English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's chores, loses the groats to a robber, and the couple wins them 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/236-pg14241-part3/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:236-pg14241-part3:t9:1
# text = Who was sat at the table in the hill, mate?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · passive |  |  |  | the table |  | in the hill and mate | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme at table=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 {#o1}

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two fine gents with a dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:236-pg14241-part3:t9:o1:1
# text = two fine gents with a dog
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gents	gent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
some robbers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:236-pg14241-part3:t9:o2:1
# text = some robbers
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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a fine gent and his dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:236-pg14241-part3:t9:o3:1
# text = a fine gent and his dog
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gent	gent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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two posh gents and their crew

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:236-pg14241-part3:t9:o4:1
# text = two posh gents and their crew
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gents	gent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	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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