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title: what even is a beadle, like is it a teacher? — Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper… · tree and pragmatics
description: what even is a beadle, like is it a teacher? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 929 «Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talks about boulders, the wild ride to Amack and falling stars» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talk…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
what even is a beadle, like is it a teacher?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** beadle

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 929 «Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talks about boulders, the wild ride to Amack and falling stars» 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/929-pg27200-part140/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:929-pg27200-part140:t6:1
# text = what even is a beadle, like is it a teacher?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	beadle	beadle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a beadle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | like beadle | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, a parish officer who kept order, kinda old-school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:929-pg27200-part140:t6:o1:1
# text = nah, a parish officer who kept order, kinda old-school
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	parish	parish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | a parish officer and old school | order |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, a parish officer who kept order in the village and the church, kinda old-school

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:929-pg27200-part140:t6:o2:1
# text = nah, a parish officer who kept order in the village and the church, kinda old-school
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	parish	parish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | a parish officer | order |  | the village and the church and old school |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent order=Theme in village=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, a church helper who kept things tidy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:929-pg27200-part140:t6:o3:1
# text = nah, a church helper who kept things tidy
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	helper	helper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	tidy	tidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | a church helper | things |  |  |  | tidy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, sorta, a teacher who was also a cop and a parish guy, super old-school

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:929-pg27200-part140:t6:o4:1
# text = yeah, sorta, a teacher who was also a cop and a parish guy, super old-school
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sorta	sorta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cop	cop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	parish	parish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	super	super	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | sorta | a cop and a parish guy and old school |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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