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description: mate, what did the bishop reckon the loveliest rose was, innit? Test 2 · ★ 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 de
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wi…

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mate, what did the bishop reckon the loveliest rose was, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bishop · **What happens:** be, innit

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t2:1
# text = mate, what did the bishop reckon the loveliest rose was, innit?
1	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · do-support | the bishop |  |  |  |  | mate *obl*; reckon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive | the bishop *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 young lady kneeling at the altar rail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t2:o1:1
# text = a young lady kneeling at the altar rail
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	kneeling	kneel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kneel** | gerund | a young lady *not said here* |  |  | the altar rail |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at rail=Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a maiden at the altar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t2:o2:1
# text = a maiden at the altar
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the lass in the front pew saying her vows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t2:o3:1
# text = the lass in the front pew saying her vows
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lass	lass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pew	pew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	vows	vow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the lass in the front pew | lass's vows |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent vow=Topic |
| 2 | **vow** |  | lass |  |  |  |  |  | nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a girl in the chapel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t2:o4:1
# text = a girl in the chapel
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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