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title: what's the posh word for the old fella on the wall? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: O… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's the posh word for the old fella on the wall? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 928 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death shows Hjalmar how he sorts the riders by their mark-books» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death s…

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what's the posh word for the old fella on the wall?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** posh word · **What happens:** be

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 928 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death shows Hjalmar how he sorts the riders by their mark-books» 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/928-pg27200-part139/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t7:1
# text = what's the posh word for the old fella on the wall?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fella	fella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the posh word for the old fella on the wall |  |  |  |  |  | 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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great-grandfather's painting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t7:o1:1
# text = great-grandfather's painting
1	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	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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the old oil portrait of our great-grandfather painted many years ago

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t7:o2:1
# text = the old oil portrait of our great-grandfather painted many years ago
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | past | the old oil portrait of our great grandfather |  |  |  | year | ago *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **portray** |  |  | our great grandfather |  |  |  |  | nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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

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great-grandfather's portrait

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t7:o3:1
# text = great-grandfather's portrait
1	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **portray** |  | great grandfather |  |  |  |  |  | nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the great-grandfather's portrait hanging in the dusty hall upstairs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t7:o4:1
# text = the great-grandfather's portrait hanging in the dusty hall upstairs
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | gerund | the great grandfather's portrait *not said here* |  |  | the dusty hall |  | upstairs *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location |
| 2 | **portray** |  | the great grandfather |  |  |  |  |  | nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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