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title: wait, what was Flabs? — Andersen's Tales, The Omnibus of Life,… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what was Flabs? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 931 «Andersen's Tales, The Omnibus of Life, part 2: the deeds of the dead and the aunt who lived for the theatre» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wro
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# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Omnibus of Life, part 2: the deeds o…

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wait, what was Flabs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** Flabs

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 931 «Andersen's Tales, The Omnibus of Life, part 2: the deeds of the dead and the aunt who lived for the theatre» 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/931-pg27200-part142/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:931-pg27200-part142:t6:1
# text = wait, what was Flabs?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Flabs	flab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	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** | past |  | Flabs |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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a nickname for a cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:931-pg27200-part142:t6:o1:1
# text = a nickname for a cat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nickname	nickname	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a nickname for our aunt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:931-pg27200-part142:t6:o2:1
# text = a nickname for our aunt
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nickname	nickname	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a nickname for our aunt given by the agent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:931-pg27200-part142:t6:o3:1
# text = a nickname for our aunt given by the agent
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nickname	nickname	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	agent	agent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | participle |  | our aunt *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a name for a horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:931-pg27200-part142:t6:o4:1
# text = a name for a horse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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