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title: Wait, who's that old geezer in the massive wig? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, who's that old geezer in the massive wig? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 921 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man and a little boy become friends across the street» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man an…

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Wait, who's that old geezer in the massive wig?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** old geezer, massive wig

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 921 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man and a little boy become friends across the street» 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/921-pg27200-part132/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:t1:1
# text = Wait, who's that old geezer in the massive wig?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	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	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	geezer	geezer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wig	wig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | that old geezer |  | the massive wig |  |  | 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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A posh gent in a long coat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:t1:o1:1
# text = A posh gent in a long coat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gent	gent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	coat	coat	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 -->
Some young lad in trousers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:t1:o2:1
# text = Some young lad in trousers
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Some lonely old bloke in breeches and a massive powdered wig

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:t1:o3:1
# text = Some lonely old bloke in breeches and a massive powdered wig
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
2	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	breeches	breech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	powdered	powder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	wig	wig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **powder** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Some lonely old bloke in breeches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:t1:o4:1
# text = Some lonely old bloke in breeches
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
2	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	breeches	breech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	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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