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title: Who was the proper boffin about stocks and shares in that house? — Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was the proper boffin about stocks and shares in that house? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 310 «Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through, part 1: the Darlings and their dog nurse Nana» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 2 · ★ · Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through, part 1: the Darling…

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Who was the proper boffin about stocks and shares in that house?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** proper boffin

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 310 «Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through, part 1: the Darlings and their dog nurse Nana» 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/310-pg16-part1/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:310-pg16-part1:t2:1
# text = Who was the proper boffin about stocks and shares in that house?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	boffin	boffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	stocks	stock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	shares	share	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the proper boffin |  |  |  | about stocks and shares in that house | 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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Mrs Darling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:310-pg16-part1:t2:o1:1
# text = Mrs Darling
1	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Mr Banks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:310-pg16-part1:t2:o2:1
# text = Mr Banks
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Mr Darling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:310-pg16-part1:t2:o3:1
# text = Mr Darling
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The neighbour who lived at number 15

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:310-pg16-part1:t2:o4:1
# text = The neighbour who lived at number 15
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the neighbour |  |  | number |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at number=Location |

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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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