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title: So what's a pepper gentleman, like for real? — Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's N… · tree and pragmatics
description: So what's a pepper gentleman, like for real? Test 4 · ★ 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
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a…

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So what's a pepper gentleman, like for real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** pepper gentleman

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:915-pg27200-part126:t4:1
# text = So what's a pepper gentleman, like for real?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a pepper gentleman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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An old unmarried clerk who must never wed in Copenhagen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:915-pg27200-part126:t4:o1:1
# text = An old unmarried clerk who must never wed in Copenhagen
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	unmarried	unmarried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	wed	wed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wed** | must | a old unmarried clerk |  |  | Copenhagen |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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An old unmarried clerk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:915-pg27200-part126:t4:o2:1
# text = An old unmarried clerk
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	unmarried	unmarried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	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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An old clerk who lives in the booths and sells pepper all day long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:915-pg27200-part126:t4:o3:1
# text = An old clerk who lives in the booths and sells pepper all day long
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	booths	booth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
10	sells	sell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | a old clerk |  |  | the booths |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in booth=Location |
| 2 | **sell** | present | a old clerk | pepper |  |  | day | long *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pepper=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A rich old merchant man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:915-pg27200-part126:t4:o4:1
# text = A rich old merchant man
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	man	man	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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