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title: dude, what was the book with the cock on it? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens,… · tree and pragmatics
description: dude, what was the book with the cock on it? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 778 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, part 1: a girl sets out to free her seven brothers, who were turned into ravens» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, part 1: a girl sets…

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dude, what was the book with the cock on it?

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

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 778 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, part 1: a girl sets out to free her seven brothers, who were turned into ravens» 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/778-pg2591-part54/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:778-pg2591-part54:t11:1
# text = dude, what was the book with the cock on it?
1	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | dude | the book |  |  |  | with the cock on book | 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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an A B C book

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:778-pg2591-part54:t11:o1:1
# text = an A B C book
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	B	B	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	C	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	book	book	NOUN	NN	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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a quill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:778-pg2591-part54:t11:o2:1
# text = a quill
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	quill	quill	NOUN	NN	_	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 slate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:778-pg2591-part54:t11:o3:1
# text = a slate
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	slate	slate	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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a book of prayers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:778-pg2591-part54:t11:o4:1
# text = a book of prayers
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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