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title: so who were the swindlers, fr? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's… · tree and pragmatics
description: so who were the swindlers, fr? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 824 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Suit: a child says the truth» 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 was right.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Suit: a child sa…

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so who were the swindlers, fr?

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

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 824 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Suit: a child says the truth» 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/824-pg27200-part35/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:824-pg27200-part35:t2:1
# text = so who were the swindlers, fr?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	swindlers	swindler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	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 swindlers and fr |  |  |  |  | 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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Two fake weavers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:824-pg27200-part35:t2:o1:1
# text = Two fake weavers
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	weavers	weaver	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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Two thieves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:824-pg27200-part35:t2:o2:1
# text = Two thieves
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	thieves	thief	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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Two clever tailors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:824-pg27200-part35:t2:o3:1
# text = Two clever tailors
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tailors	tailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Two royal weavers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:824-pg27200-part35:t2:o4:1
# text = Two royal weavers
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	weavers	weaver	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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