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title: Mate, what were the yellow buttons really? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Cat… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what were the yellow buttons really? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 752 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine: a careless wife ruins the dinner, and the gold is stolen.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine: a careless w…

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Mate, what were the yellow buttons really?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** yellow buttons

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 752 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine: a careless wife ruins the dinner, and the gold is stolen.» 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/752-pg2591-part28/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:752-pg2591-part28:t12:1
# text = Mate, what were the yellow buttons really?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	buttons	button	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mate and the yellow buttons | the yellow buttons |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Gold, Frederick's stash in the garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:752-pg2591-part28:t12:o1:1
# text = Gold, Frederick's stash in the garden
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	stash	stash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stash** |  | Frederick |  |  | the garden |  |  | nom stash «possession transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Brass, the pedlars' cheap trinkets for sale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:752-pg2591-part28:t12:o2:1
# text = Brass, the pedlars' cheap trinkets for sale
1	Brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pedlars	pedlar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	trinkets	trinket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Just buttons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:752-pg2591-part28:t12:o3:1
# text = Just buttons
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	buttons	button	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Silver, the miller's coins in the cellar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:752-pg2591-part28:t12:o4:1
# text = Silver, the miller's coins in the cellar
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **coin** |  | the miller |  |  | the cellar |  |  | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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