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title: Yo, what was the old man's last advice to Jack? — Olive Fairy Book, The Three Treasures… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what was the old man's last advice to Jack? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1166 «Olive Fairy Book, The Three Treasures of the Giants, part 1: three brothers find a castle of money, and Jack gets the last word» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 10 · ★ · Olive Fairy Book, The Three Treasures of the Giants, part…

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Yo, what was the old man's last advice to Jack?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** last advice, Jack

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1166 «Olive Fairy Book, The Three Treasures of the Giants, part 1: three brothers find a castle of money, and Jack gets the last word» 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/1166-pg3027-part32/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1166-pg3027-part32:t10:1
# text = Yo, what was the old man's last advice to Jack?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the old man's last advice | Jack |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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look after the cows and sheep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1166-pg3027-part32:t10:o1:1
# text = look after the cows and sheep
1	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | after the cows and sheep |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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work hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1166-pg3027-part32:t10:o2:1
# text = work hard
1	work	work	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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be kind-hearted and listen to Mum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1166-pg3027-part32:t10:o3:1
# text = be kind-hearted and listen to Mum
1	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
2	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hearted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **listen** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Mum | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to mum=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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never trust your brothers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1166-pg3027-part32:t10:o4:1
# text = never trust your brothers
1	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	trust	trust	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **trust** | imperative | you *not said here* | your brothers |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |

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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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