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title: Patrick's uncle learned plumbing by watching and doing, bud. What ol… — Learning through the ages: schools, un… · tree and pragmatics
description: Patrick's uncle learned plumbing by watching and doing, bud. What old way is that? Test 8 of lesson 64 «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 8 · Learning through the ages: schools, universities, librarie…

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Patrick's uncle learned plumbing by watching and doing, bud. What old way is that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** uncle, that · **What happens:** learn, plumb, watch, do, be · **To what, where:** bud

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This is test 8 of lesson 64 «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» of the history 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/history/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Patrick's uncle learned plumbing by watching and doing, bud.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science:t8:1
# text = Patrick's uncle learned plumbing by watching and doing, bud.
1	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	plumbing	plumb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | Patrick's uncle |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **plumb** | gerund | Patrick's uncle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund | Patrick's uncle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | gerund | Patrick's uncle *not said here* | bud |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bud=Eventuality |

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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:* What old way is that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science:t8:2
# text = What old way is that?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that |  |  |  |  | old way *obl:unmarked* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A university degree, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science:t8:o1:1
# text = A university degree, mate
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	university	university	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A guild run by kings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science:t8:o2:1
# text = A guild run by kings
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guild	guild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:agent	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | participle |  | a guild *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
An apprenticeship

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science:t8:o3:1
# text = An apprenticeship
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	apprenticeship	apprenticeship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A proper online course

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science:t8:o4:1
# text = A proper online course
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	online	online	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	course	course	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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