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title: Mate, what's the daft lad after up at the wise woman's? — English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brain… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what's the daft lad after up at the wise woman's? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 253 «English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hobyahs are beaten, the fool's mother dies, and a lass offers to help him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hoby…

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Mate, what's the daft lad after up at the wise woman's?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** daft lad

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 253 «English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hobyahs are beaten, the fool's mother dies, and a lass offers to help him» 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/253-pg14241-part20/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:253-pg14241-part20:t1:1
# text = Mate, what's the daft lad after up at the wise woman's?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	daft	daft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mate and the daft lad | the daft lad |  |  | after the wise woman |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a pottle o' brains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:253-pg14241-part20:t1:o1:1
# text = a pottle o' brains
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	pottle	pottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a sack o' bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:253-pg14241-part20:t1:o2:1
# text = a sack o' bread
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	bread	bread	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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a bag o' gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:253-pg14241-part20:t1:o3:1
# text = a bag o' gold
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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brains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:253-pg14241-part20:t1:o4:1
# text = brains
1	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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