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title: Mate, the hermit just sat in a cave with a massive beard reading a b… — Pink Fairy Book, Rose-Leaf and Apple-B… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, the hermit just sat in a cave with a massive beard reading a book? Creepy, innit Test 12 · ★ of lesson 675 «Pink Fairy Book, Rose-Leaf and Apple-Blossom, part 15: the prince finds his brothers, and the old man finds a baby girl» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency
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# Test 12 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Rose-Leaf and Apple-Blossom, part 15: the…

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Mate, the hermit just sat in a cave with a massive beard reading a book? Creepy, innit

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate, massive beard · **What happens:** sit, read · **To what, where:** cave, book

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 675 «Pink Fairy Book, Rose-Leaf and Apple-Blossom, part 15: the prince finds his brothers, and the old man finds a baby girl» 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/675-pg2435-part15/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mate, the hermit just sat in a cave with a massive beard reading a book?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:675-pg2435-part15:t12:1
# text = Mate, the hermit just sat in a cave with a massive beard reading a book?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Mate and the hermit |  |  | a cave |  | with a massive beard | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cave=Location |
| 2 | **read** | gerund | a massive beard *not said here* | a book |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Creepy, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:675-pg2435-part15:t12:2
# text = Creepy, innit
1	Creepy	creepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	innit	innit	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, bit spooky, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:675-pg2435-part15:t12:o1:1
# text = Yeah, bit spooky, bro
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bit	bite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	spooky	spooky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | past |  |  |  |  |  | bro *vocative*; spooky *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a total old hermit with a white beard, proper spooky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:675-pg2435-part15:t12:o2:1
# text = Yeah, a total old hermit with a white beard, proper spooky
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	spooky	spooky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, an old guy in a cave, quite creepy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:675-pg2435-part15:t12:o3:1
# text = Yeah, an old guy in a cave, quite creepy
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	creepy	creepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he was actually a friendly young man in a town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:675-pg2435-part15:t12:o4:1
# text = Nah, he was actually a friendly young man in a town
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | he | a friendly young man |  | a town |  | actually *property* | tree rules |

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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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