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title: Bro, which guy is blind but still writes poems for cash? — Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of H… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, which guy is blind but still writes poems for cash? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 999 «Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people suffer for their gifts» 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 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people s…

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Bro, which guy is blind but still writes poems for cash?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** guy · **What happens:** be, write · **To what, where:** poems

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 999 «Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people suffer for their gifts» 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/999-pg27200-part210/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t2:1
# text = Bro, which guy is blind but still writes poems for cash?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which guy |  |  |  |  | Bro *vocative*; blind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | present | which guy *not said here* | poems |  |  | still | for cash | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent poem=Result for cash=Beneficiary |

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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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Virgil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t2:o1:1
# text = Virgil
1	Virgil	virgil	NOUN	NN	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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Hesiod

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t2:o2:1
# text = Hesiod
1	Hesiod	Hesiod	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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Ovid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t2:o3:1
# text = Ovid
1	Ovid	Ovid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Homer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t2:o4:1
# text = Homer
1	Homer	homer	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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