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title: deadass, what did the merchant look at through his telescope? — Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the E… · tree and pragmatics
description: deadass, what did the merchant look at through his telescope? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 968 «Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179: the shipwreck and Clara's death» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 12 · ★ · Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179…

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deadass, what did the merchant look at through his telescope?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** merchant · **What happens:** look

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 968 «Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179: the shipwreck and Clara's death» 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/968-pg27200-part179/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:968-pg27200-part179:t12:1
# text = deadass, what did the merchant look at through his telescope?
1	deadass	deadass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	telescope	telescope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · do-support | the merchant |  |  |  |  | at merchant's telescope; deadass *vocative* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at telescope=Theme |

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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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the lighthouse keeper's lamp across the bay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:968-pg27200-part179:t12:o1:1
# text = the lighthouse keeper's lamp across the bay
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lighthouse	lighthouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a passing sloop at sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:968-pg27200-part179:t12:o2:1
# text = a passing sloop at sea
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	sloop	sloop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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his own ship, the karen bronne

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:968-pg27200-part179:t12:o3:1
# text = his own ship, the karen bronne
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	karen	karen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bronne	bronne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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his son's little boat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:968-pg27200-part179:t12:o4:1
# text = his son's little boat
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	boat	boat	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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