--- title: Mate, did the wife nick the cock while Grumbler was snoozing? — pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake… · tree and pragmatics description: Mate, did the wife nick the cock while Grumbler was snoozing? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1215 «pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake cock, a magic switch, and a new tale begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1215-pg3282-part16/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1215-pg3282-part16/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake cock, a magic switch… Mate, did the wife nick the cock while Grumbler was snoozing? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wife, Grumbler · **What happens:** nick, snooze · **To what, where:** cock This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1215 «pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake cock, a magic switch, and a new tale begins» 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/1215-pg3282-part16/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1215-pg3282-part16:t1:1 # text = Mate, did the wife nick the cock while Grumbler was snoozing? 1 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 nick nick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 while while SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 Grumbler Grumbler PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 snoozing snooze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nick** | past · do-support | the wife | the cock | | | | Mate *vocative* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Patient | | 2 | **snooze** | past · progressive | Grumbler | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} Yeah, she nicked a fresh one ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1215-pg3282-part16:t1:o1:1 # text = Yeah, she nicked a fresh one 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 nicked nick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nick** | past | she | a fresh one | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Nah, she kept the same cock ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1215-pg3282-part16:t1:o2:1 # text = Nah, she kept the same cock 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | she | the same cock | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Yeah, she did ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1215-pg3282-part16:t1:o3:1 # text = Yeah, she did 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | she | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Yeah, she swapped it for her own ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1215-pg3282-part16:t1:o4:1 # text = Yeah, she swapped it for her own 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 swapped swap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swap** | past | she | it | | | | for her own | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for own=Co-Theme | **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. 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