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title: bro, was the throne two miles high or like two yards? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, was the throne two miles high or like two yards? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 734 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: Ilsabill wants to be king, emperor, pope, then lord of the sun and moon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: Ilsab…

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bro, was the throne two miles high or like two yards?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** throne

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 734 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: Ilsabill wants to be king, emperor, pope, then lord of the sun and moon» 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/734-pg2591-part10/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:734-pg2591-part10:t8:1
# text = bro, was the throne two miles high or like two yards?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the throne |  |  |  | bro *vocative* | 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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two leagues

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:734-pg2591-part10:t8:o1:1
# text = two leagues
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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miles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:734-pg2591-part10:t8:o2:1
# text = miles
1	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a mile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:734-pg2591-part10:t8:o3:1
# text = a mile
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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two miles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:734-pg2591-part10:t8:o4:1
# text = two miles
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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