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title: You want to read about the real life of Abraham Lincoln. Which kind… — The library and books · tree and pragmatics
description: You want to read about the real life of Abraham Lincoln. Which kind of book do you choose? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 259 «The library and books» of the everyday 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 · ★ · The library and books

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You want to read about the real life of Abraham Lincoln. Which kind of book do you choose?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** want, read, choose · **To what, where:** kind

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 259 «The library and books» of the everyday 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/everyday/259-library-and-books/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You want to read about the real life of Abraham Lincoln.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:259-library-and-books:t6:1
# text = You want to read about the real life of Abraham Lincoln.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Lincoln	Lincoln	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **read** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the real life of Abraham Lincoln | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about life=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which kind of book do you choose?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:259-library-and-books:t6:2
# text = Which kind of book do you choose?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | present · do-support | you | which kind of book |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A joke book

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:259-library-and-books:t6:o1:1
# text = A joke book
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	book	book	NOUN	NN	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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Non-fiction

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:259-library-and-books:t6:o2:1
# text = Non-fiction
1	Non-fiction	non-fiction	NOUN	NN	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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A book of fairy tales

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:259-library-and-books:t6:o3:1
# text = A book of fairy tales
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fiction

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:259-library-and-books:t6:o4:1
# text = Fiction
1	Fiction	fiction	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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