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title: Dude, was George's watch real gold or just pinchbeck? — Andersen tales, George and little Emil… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, was George's watch real gold or just pinchbeck? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 944 «Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George is confirmed, gets a hymn-book from Emily, and sends her pictures while she is ill» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pra
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George…

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Dude, was George's watch real gold or just pinchbeck?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** watch real gold

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 944 «Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George is confirmed, gets a hymn-book from Emily, and sends her pictures while she is ill» 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/944-pg27200-part155/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:944-pg27200-part155:t1:1
# text = Dude, was George's watch real gold or just pinchbeck?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	pinchbeck	pinchbeck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Dude | George's watch real gold or pinchbeck |  |  |  |  | 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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pure silver, very cheap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:944-pg27200-part155:t1:o1:1
# text = pure silver, very cheap
1	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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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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pinchbeck, fake and cheap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:944-pg27200-part155:t1:o2:1
# text = pinchbeck, fake and cheap
1	pinchbeck	pinchbeck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	appos	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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solid gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:944-pg27200-part155:t1:o3:1
# text = solid gold
1	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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real gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:944-pg27200-part155:t1:o4:1
# text = real gold
1	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gold	gold	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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