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title: Yo, who's the sus lad the Count is showing round the poultry-house? — Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, who's the sus lad the Count is showing round the poultry-house? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 946 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes back, asks for Emily's hand, and is refused» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes…

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Yo, who's the sus lad the Count is showing round the poultry-house?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Count · **What happens:** be, show · **To what, where:** sus lad

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 946 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes back, asks for Emily's hand, and is refused» 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/946-pg27200-part157/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:946-pg27200-part157:t1:1
# text = Yo, who's the sus lad the Count is showing round the poultry-house?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	round	round	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	poultry	poultry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the sus lad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | present · progressive | the Count | the sus lad *not said here* |  |  |  | round the poultry house | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lad=Recipient |

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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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Old George

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:946-pg27200-part157:t1:o1:1
# text = Old George
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	George	George	PROPN	NNP	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 Count

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:946-pg27200-part157:t1:o2:1
# text = The Count
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Architect George

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:946-pg27200-part157:t1:o3:1
# text = Architect George
1	Architect	architect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Architect Henry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:946-pg27200-part157:t1:o4:1
# text = Architect Henry
1	Architect	architect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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