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title: Mate, which tragedy was he holding, like proper? — Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, which tragedy was he holding, like proper? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 282 «Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk dreams he is a lark, is caught by a sailor-boy and is sold to two schoolboys» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk…

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Mate, which tragedy was he holding, like proper?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** hold

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 282 «Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk dreams he is a lark, is caught by a sailor-boy and is sold to two schoolboys» 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/282-pg1597-part9/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t3:1
# text = Mate, which tragedy was he holding, like proper?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	tragedy	tragedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · progressive | Mate and which tragedy |  |  |  |  | like proper | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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DAME TIGBRITH, five acts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t3:o1:1
# text = DAME TIGBRITH, five acts
1	DAME	DAME	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	TIGBRITH	TIGBRITH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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KING LEAR, four acts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t3:o2:1
# text = KING LEAR, four acts
1	KING	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	LEAR	lear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A tragedy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t3:o3:1
# text = A tragedy
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tragedy	tragedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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DAME TIGBRITH, three acts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t3:o4:1
# text = DAME TIGBRITH, three acts
1	DAME	DAME	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	TIGBRITH	TIGBRITH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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