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title: Ngl, what's the poet's book called? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what's the poet's book called? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 960 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Homer's Grave: a rose is carried north in a book» 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 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Homer's Grave: a rose…

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Ngl, what's the poet's book called?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ngl · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** book, Ngl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 960 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Homer's Grave: a rose is carried north in a book» 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/960-pg27200-part171/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:t9:1
# text = Ngl, what's the poet's book called?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Ngl | the poet's book |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle · passive |  | Ngl |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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The Odyssey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:t9:o1:1
# text = The Odyssey
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Odyssey	Odyssey	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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The Iliad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:t9:o2:1
# text = The Iliad
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Iliad	Iliad	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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The Aeneid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:t9:o3:1
# text = The Aeneid
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Aeneid	Aeneid	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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The collected songs of the ancient minstrels

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:t9:o4:1
# text = The collected songs of the ancient minstrels
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	minstrels	minstrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **sing** |  | the ancient minstrels |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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