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title: Mate, was it proper warm that night or chilly? — Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, was it proper warm that night or chilly? Test 3 · ★ 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; Mova's choice was
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# Test 3 · ★ · Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins h…

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Mate, was it proper warm that night or chilly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be

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This is test 3 · ★ 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. 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t3:1
# text = Mate, was it proper warm that night or chilly?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	chilly	chilly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Mate |  |  |  | night | Mate *vocative*; warm *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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wet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t3:o1:1
# text = wet
1	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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warm and still

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t3:o2:1
# text = warm and still
1	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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damp and foggy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t3:o3:1
# text = damp and foggy
1	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	foggy	foggy	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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cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t3:o4:1
# text = cold
1	cold	cold	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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