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title: What was the designation of the flat stone beside the hedge? — Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the designation of the flat stone beside the hedge? Exam question 2 of lesson 239 «Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins his work and he gets the sack» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Exam question 2 · Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins h…

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What was the designation of the flat stone beside the hedge?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** designation · **What happens:** be, designate · **To what, where:** flat stone

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 239 «Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins his work and he gets the sack» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/239-pg14241-part6/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:e2:1
# text = What was the designation of the flat stone beside the hedge?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	designation	designation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the designation of the flat stone beside the hedge |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **designate** |  |  | the flat stone beside the hedge |  |  |  |  | nom designation «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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the Stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:e2:o1:1
# text = the Stone
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Stone	Stone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the Table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:e2:o2:1
# text = the Table
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Table	Table	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the Mourners' Bench

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:e2:o3:1
# text = the Mourners' Bench
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mourners	mourner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Bench	Bench	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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the Strangers' Table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:e2:o4:1
# text = the Strangers' Table
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Table	Table	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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