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title: Who sold German beer in the booths? — Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's N… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who sold German beer in the booths? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 915 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a silly pretend play, then the strange street of pepper clerks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a…

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Who sold German beer in the booths?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** sell · **To what, where:** German beer, booths

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 915 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a silly pretend play, then the strange street of pepper clerks» 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/915-pg27200-part126/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:915-pg27200-part126:t11:1
# text = Who sold German beer in the booths?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	booths	booth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | past |  | German beer |  | the booths |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme |

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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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Anna

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:915-pg27200-part126:t11:o1:1
# text = Anna
1	Anna	Anna	PROPN	NNP	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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Hysken

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:915-pg27200-part126:t11:o2:1
# text = Hysken
1	Hysken	Hysken	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The clerks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:915-pg27200-part126:t11:o3:1
# text = The clerks
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clerks	clerk	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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The Danes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:915-pg27200-part126:t11:o4:1
# text = The Danes
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Danes	Dane	PROPN	NNPS	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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