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# Test 1 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised…

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Mate, the visitors took the mick out of her 'cos she was dressed in donkey-skin, yeah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** visitors · **What happens:** take, dress · **To what, where:** mick, she, donkey skin

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1094 «Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised and wed to the prince» 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/1094-pg29021-part19/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1094-pg29021-part19:t1:1
# text = Mate, the visitors took the mick out of her 'cos she was dressed in donkey-skin, yeah?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mick	mick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
21	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the visitors | the mick |  |  |  | out her *= she*; Mate *vocative* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent mick=Theme out she=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **dress** | past · passive |  | she |  | donkey skin |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Yeah, they laughed at her in that skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1094-pg29021-part19:t1:o1:1
# text = Yeah, they laughed at her in that skin
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | they |  |  |  |  | at her *= she*; in that skin | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in skin=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Yeah, they laughed at her in that skin and said it was rubbish, innit

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1094-pg29021-part19:t1:o2:1
# text = Yeah, they laughed at her in that skin and said it was rubbish, innit
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | they |  |  |  |  | at her *= she*; in that skin | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in skin=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | skin | rubbish and innit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, they took the piss out of her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1094-pg29021-part19:t1:o3:1
# text = Yeah, they took the piss out of her
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	piss	piss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | they | the piss |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument piss=Theme her=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, they just smiled at her kindly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1094-pg29021-part19:t1:o4:1
# text = Nah, they just smiled at her kindly
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smile** | past | they |  |  |  |  | at her *= she*; kindly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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