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title: The verse says the little one gets honour, yeah? — Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb t… · tree and pragmatics
description: The verse says the little one gets honour, yeah? Test 12 · ★ 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 choice 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boot…

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The verse says the little one gets honour, yeah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** verse, little one · **What happens:** say, get · **To what, where:** honour · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t12:1
# text = The verse says the little one gets honour, yeah?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the verse |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get** | present | the little one | honour |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer honour=Stimulus |

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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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Yeah, through unforeseen events that nobody could predict

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t12:o1:1
# text = Yeah, through unforeseen events that nobody could predict
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	unforeseen	unforeseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	predict	predict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **predict** | could | unforeseen events |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, through wicked tricks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t12:o2:1
# text = Nah, through wicked tricks
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, through sudden events

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t12:o3:1
# text = Yeah, through sudden events
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, through unforeseen events

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t12:o4:1
# text = Yeah, through unforeseen events
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	unforeseen	unforeseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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