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title: Oi, who did Little Thumb tell to bolt home first, fam? — Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, who did Little Thumb tell to bolt home first, fam? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 1 · ★ · Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boot…

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Oi, who did Little Thumb tell to bolt home first, fam?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Oi · **What happens:** tell, bolt · **To what, where:** fam · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» 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/1090-pg29021-part15/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t1:1
# text = Oi, who did Little Thumb tell to bolt home first, fam?
1	Oi	Oi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	bolt	bolt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Oi and Little Thumb |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bolt** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Oi and Little Thumb *not said here* | fam |  |  |  | first, home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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His bros

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t1:o1:1
# text = His bros
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bros	bro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bros

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t1:o2:1
# text = Bros
1	Bros	bro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Dad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t1:o3:1
# text = Dad
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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His dad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t1:o4:1
# text = His dad
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dad	dad	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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