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title: was Bronne a proper decent bloke or nah? — Jurgen's Book, Jurgen, part 178: Jurge… · tree and pragmatics
description: was Bronne a proper decent bloke or nah? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 967 «Jurgen's Book, Jurgen, part 178: Jurgen is freed and travels to Skjagen» 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 6 · ★ · Jurgen's Book, Jurgen, part 178: Jurgen is freed and trave…

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was Bronne a proper decent bloke or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** proper decent bloke

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 967 «Jurgen's Book, Jurgen, part 178: Jurgen is freed and travels to Skjagen» 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/967-pg27200-part178/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:967-pg27200-part178:t6:1
# text = was Bronne a proper decent bloke or nah?
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
2	Bronne	Bronne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	decent	decent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a proper decent bloke |  |  |  |  | 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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Nah, dodgy as anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:967-pg27200-part178:t6:o1:1
# text = Nah, dodgy as anything
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yeah, a bit shady, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:967-pg27200-part178:t6:o2:1
# text = Yeah, a bit shady, mate
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	shady	shady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Proper decent, honest mate, he gave Jurgen a fresh start and a ticket out

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:967-pg27200-part178:t6:o3:1
# text = Proper decent, honest mate, he gave Jurgen a fresh start and a ticket out
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	decent	decent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	iobj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ticket	ticket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give out** | past | he | a fresh start and a ticket | Jurgen |  |  | Proper decent honest mate *vocative* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Proper decent, honest mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:967-pg27200-part178:t6:o4:1
# text = Proper decent, honest mate
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	decent	decent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mate	mate	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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**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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