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title: oi, who's the wise geezer who starts all this? — Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passe… · tree and pragmatics
description: oi, who's the wise geezer who starts all this? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 886 «Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wise man hunts the loveliest rose, then twelve months arrive at the town gate on New Year's Eve» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wi…

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oi, who's the wise geezer who starts all this?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** oi, wise geezer · **What happens:** be, start · **To what, where:** wise geezer, this

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 886 «Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wise man hunts the loveliest rose, then twelve months arrive at the town gate on New Year's Eve» 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/886-pg27200-part97/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t1:1
# text = oi, who's the wise geezer who starts all this?
1	oi	oi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	geezer	geezer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | oi | the wise geezer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | present | the wise geezer | this |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |

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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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the wise man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t1:o1:1
# text = the wise man
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the boss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t1:o2:1
# text = the boss
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boss	boss	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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the old bloke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t1:o3:1
# text = the old bloke
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bloke	bloke	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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the clever chap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t1:o4:1
# text = the clever chap
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	chap	chap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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