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title: fam, what does testimonial even mean? — Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rot… · tree and pragmatics
description: fam, what does testimonial even mean? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 639 «Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is wound up on the pillar, the island spins, and everyone changes size» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 12 · ★ · Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is…

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fam, what does testimonial even mean?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fam · **What happens:** be, mean

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 639 «Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is wound up on the pillar, the island spins, and everyone changes size» 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/639-pg23661-part7/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:t12:1
# text = fam, what does testimonial even mean?
1	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	testimonial	testimonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | fam |  |  |  |  | testimonial *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | infinitive | fam *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a token of thanks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:t12:o1:1
# text = a token of thanks
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a formal statement written by the court clerk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:t12:o2:1
# text = a formal statement written by the court clerk
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | participle |  | a formal statement *not said here* |  |  |  | by the court clerk | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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a kind of letter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:t12:o3:1
# text = a kind of letter
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	letter	letter	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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a long speech given at a grand dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:t12:o4:1
# text = a long speech given at a grand dinner
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | participle |  | a long speech *not said here* |  | a grand dinner |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at dinner=Asset |

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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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