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title: Ok but which old shepherd cracks the joke about the root? — Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ok but which old shepherd cracks the joke about the root? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 686 «Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells how to win the root, and poor Peter makes a plan» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 5 · ★ · Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells ho…

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Ok but which old shepherd cracks the joke about the root?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old shepherd · **What happens:** crack · **To what, where:** joke

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 686 «Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells how to win the root, and poor Peter makes a plan» 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/686-pg2435-part26/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t5:1
# text = Ok but which old shepherd cracks the joke about the root?
1	Ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cracks	crack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crack** | present | old shepherd | the joke |  |  |  | about the root | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Patient joke=Result |

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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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Peter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t5:o1:1
# text = Peter
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ulf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t5:o2:1
# text = Ulf
1	Ulf	Ulf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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Blaize

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t5:o3:1
# text = Blaize
1	Blaize	blaize	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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Otto

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t5:o4:1
# text = Otto
1	Otto	Otto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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