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title: Mate, what did the Grubbe brass plate say? — Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did the Grubbe brass plate say? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 948 «Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and Soren rob the birds' nests» 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 wrong
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and…

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Mate, what did the Grubbe brass plate say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Grubbe brass plate · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** Mate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 948 «Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and Soren rob the birds' nests» 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/948-pg27200-part159/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:948-pg27200-part159:t2:1
# text = Mate, what did the Grubbe brass plate say?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Grubbe	Grubbe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the Grubbe brass plate | Mate |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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Gyldenløve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:948-pg27200-part159:t2:o1:1
# text = Gyldenløve
1	Gyldenløve	Gyldenløve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Grubbe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:948-pg27200-part159:t2:o2:1
# text = Grubbe
1	Grubbe	Grubbe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Marie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:948-pg27200-part159:t2:o3:1
# text = Marie
1	Marie	Marie	PROPN	NNP	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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Soren

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:948-pg27200-part159:t2:o4:1
# text = Soren
1	Soren	Soren	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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