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title: Mate, was the mayor's dinner gonna be posh nosh, or what? — Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Not… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, was the mayor's dinner gonna be posh nosh, or what? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 843 «Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care takes the goloshes, the mayor scolds a washer-woman's boy, and bad news reaches the laundress» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependenc
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care t…

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Mate, was the mayor's dinner gonna be posh nosh, or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate dinner · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Mate dinner, gonna posh nosh

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 843 «Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care takes the goloshes, the mayor scolds a washer-woman's boy, and bad news reaches the laundress» 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/843-pg27200-part54/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t7:1
# text = Mate, was the mayor's dinner gonna be posh nosh, or what?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	gonna	gonna	X	FW	_	11	compound	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	nosh	nosh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the mayor's Mate dinner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive | the mayor's Mate dinner | gonna posh nosh |  |  |  |  | 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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strong rich wine by the bottle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t7:o1:1
# text = strong rich wine by the bottle
1	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
fine dinner with roast meats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t7:o2:1
# text = fine dinner with roast meats
1	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	meats	meat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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sweet puddings and hot soup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t7:o3:1
# text = sweet puddings and hot soup
1	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	puddings	pudding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
strong rich wine by the bottle and courses of roast swan and pie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t7:o4:1
# text = strong rich wine by the bottle and courses of roast swan and pie
1	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	courses	course	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	pie	pie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
```

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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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