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title: Was the red coverlet the dad's or the baby's? — Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the red coverlet the dad's or the baby's? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 708 «Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the ogre with a crowd of look-alikes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice
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# Test 9 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the…

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Was the red coverlet the dad's or the baby's?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** red coverlet

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 708 «Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the ogre with a crowd of look-alikes» 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/708-pg2435-part48/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:708-pg2435-part48:t9:1
# text = Was the red coverlet the dad's or the baby's?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	csubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the red coverlet |  |  |  |  | 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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the baby's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:708-pg2435-part48:t9:o1:1
# text = the baby's
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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mum's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:708-pg2435-part48:t9:o2:1
# text = mum's
1	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
```

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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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the dad's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:708-pg2435-part48:t9:o3:1
# text = the dad's
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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his

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:708-pg2435-part48:t9:o4:1
# text = his
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	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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