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title: the tea was peak, with seedy cake and red and gold china, yeah? — The Book of Dragons, The Book of Beast… · tree and pragmatics
description: the tea was peak, with seedy cake and red and gold china, yeah? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 633 «The Book of Dragons, The Book of Beasts, part 1: Lionel is fetched from the nursery and made King» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 9 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Book of Beasts, part 1: Lionel is…

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the tea was peak, with seedy cake and red and gold china, yeah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** tea · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** peak

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 633 «The Book of Dragons, The Book of Beasts, part 1: Lionel is fetched from the nursery and made King» 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/633-pg23661-part1/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:633-pg23661-part1:t9:1
# text = the tea was peak, with seedy cake and red and gold china, yeah?
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	seedy	seedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gold	gold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the tea | peak |  |  |  |  | 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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Yeah, proper tasty cake and posh china, plus loads of jam and butter on a silver tray

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:633-pg23661-part1:t9:o1:1
# text = Yeah, proper tasty cake and posh china, plus loads of jam and butter on a silver tray
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	tasty	tasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	tray	tray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it was dry bread and tin mugs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:633-pg23661-part1:t9:o2:1
# text = Nah, it was dry bread and tin mugs
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	mugs	mug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | dry bread and tin mugs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, proper tasty cake and posh china

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:633-pg23661-part1:t9:o3:1
# text = Yeah, proper tasty cake and posh china
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	tasty	tasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, nice cake and plain cups

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:633-pg23661-part1:t9:o4:1
# text = Yeah, nice cake and plain cups
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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

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