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title: Yo, John's dad snuffed it, yeah? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Silver Shi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, John's dad snuffed it, yeah? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1006 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Silver Shilling, part 217: John buries his father and sets out into the world» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Silver Shilling, part 217: Joh…

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Yo, John's dad snuffed it, yeah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** snuff · **To what, where:** it

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1006 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Silver Shilling, part 217: John buries his father and sets out into the world» 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/1006-pg27200-part217/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1006-pg27200-part217:t1:1
# text = Yo, John's dad snuffed it, yeah?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	snuffed	snuff	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snuff** | past | John's dad | it |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, his dad died, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1006-pg27200-part217:t1:o1:1
# text = Yeah, his dad died, innit
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | his dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **innit** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, his mum went off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1006-pg27200-part217:t1:o2:1
# text = Nah, his mum went off
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | past | his mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, his dad passed, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1006-pg27200-part217:t1:o3:1
# text = Yeah, his dad passed, bruv
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | his dad | bruv |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bruv=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah mate, his old man died at the farm, dead tragic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1006-pg27200-part217:t1:o4:1
# text = Yeah mate, his old man died at the farm, dead tragic
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tragic	tragic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | his old man | mate and dead tragic *not said here* |  | the farm |  |  | tree rules |

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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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