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title: In what locality did Tom Tiver first perceive the lamentation? — Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6:… · tree and pragmatics
description: In what locality did Tom Tiver first perceive the lamentation? Exam question 4 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 opti
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# Exam question 4 · Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins h…

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In what locality did Tom Tiver first perceive the lamentation?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Tom · **What happens:** perceive · **To what, where:** lamentation

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:e4:1
# text = In what locality did Tom Tiver first perceive the lamentation?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
3	locality	locality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	Tiver	Tiver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
8	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | past · do-support | Tom | the lamentation |  |  |  | first *property* | 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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the low orchard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:e4:o1:1
# text = the low orchard
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	orchard	orchard	NOUN	NN	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 yard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:e4:o2:1
# text = the yard
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	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 lane

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:e4:o3:1
# text = the lane
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	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 west field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:e4:o4:1
# text = the west field
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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