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title: Hang on, what's a burgomaster anyway, like? — Andersen's tales, The Golden Treasure:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hang on, what's a burgomaster anyway, like? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 836 «Andersen's tales, The Golden Treasure: Peter learns Charlotte is engaged, becomes famous, and the tale ends as the next one begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's tales, The Golden Treasure: Peter learns Charlo…

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Hang on, what's a burgomaster anyway, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hang on, be · **To what, where:** burgomaster

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 836 «Andersen's tales, The Golden Treasure: Peter learns Charlotte is engaged, becomes famous, and the tale ends as the next one begins» 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/836-pg27200-part47/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:836-pg27200-part47:t11:1
# text = Hang on, what's a burgomaster anyway, like?
1	Hang	hang	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	burgomaster	burgomaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang on** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a burgomaster |  |  |  |  | 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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A mayor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:836-pg27200-part47:t11:o1:1
# text = A mayor
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mayor	mayor	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 kind of town clerk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:836-pg27200-part47:t11:o2:1
# text = A kind of town clerk
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advmod	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Some kind of judge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:836-pg27200-part47:t11:o3:1
# text = Some kind of judge
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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Like a mayor of the town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:836-pg27200-part47:t11:o4:1
# text = Like a mayor of the town
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	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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