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title: Mate, was Peter just messin' with Friedlin or what? — German Popular Stories, The Cottager A… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, was Peter just messin' with Friedlin or what? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 689 «German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1: a miser's son obeys a strange dream and buys a cat» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 1 · ★ · German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1:…

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Mate, was Peter just messin' with Friedlin or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Mate Peter messin

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 689 «German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1: a miser's son obeys a strange dream and buys a cat» 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/689-pg2435-part29/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:689-pg2435-part29:t1:1
# text = Mate, was Peter just messin' with Friedlin or what?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	messin	messin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Friedlin	Friedlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Mate Peter messin |  |  |  | with Friedlin | 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 {#o1}

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He was messin' with him for the whole evening at the table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:689-pg2435-part29:t1:o1:1
# text = He was messin' with him for the whole evening at the table
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	messin	messin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | He | messin |  |  | evening | with him *= he* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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He was mocking Friedlin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:689-pg2435-part29:t1:o2:1
# text = He was mocking Friedlin
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	Friedlin	Friedlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mock** | past · progressive | He | Friedlin |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friedlin=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He was dead drunk, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:689-pg2435-part29:t1:o3:1
# text = He was dead drunk, mate
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | He |  |  |  |  | mate *vocative*; drunk *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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He was dead serious

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:689-pg2435-part29:t1:o4:1
# text = He was dead serious
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | He |  |  |  |  | serious *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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