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title: Yo, so Kabo tried copying Pivi, right? What totally backfired on him? — Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kab… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, so Kabo tried copying Pivi, right? What totally backfired on him? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1231 «Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is swallowed by a shell-fish, and is punished» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 1 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is sw…

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Yo, so Kabo tried copying Pivi, right? What totally backfired on him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Kabo · **What happens:** try, copy, backfire · **To what, where:** Pivi

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1231 «Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is swallowed by a shell-fish, and is punished» 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/1231-pg3282-part32/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Yo, so Kabo tried copying Pivi, right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1231-pg3282-part32:t1:1
# text = Yo, so Kabo tried copying Pivi, right?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	Kabo	Kabo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	copying	copy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | Kabo |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **copy** *not said to happen* | gerund | Kabo *not said here* | Pivi |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pivi=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What totally backfired on him?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1231-pg3282-part32:t1:2
# text = What totally backfired on him?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	backfired	backfire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **backfire** | participle · passive |  |  |  |  |  | on Kabo; totally *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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He got a twisted leg, a hump, and no nuts at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1231-pg3282-part32:t1:o1:1
# text = He got a twisted leg, a hump, and no nuts at all
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	twisted	twisted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | He | a twisted leg |  |  |  | no nuts at all *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He broke a spear and a tooth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1231-pg3282-part32:t1:o2:1
# text = He broke a spear and a tooth
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | He | a spear and a tooth |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spear=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He got a twisted leg and a hump

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1231-pg3282-part32:t1:o3:1
# text = He got a twisted leg and a hump
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	twisted	twisted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | He | a twisted leg and a hump |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He got a twisted leg and a hump from the tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1231-pg3282-part32:t1:o4:1
# text = He got a twisted leg and a hump from the tree
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	twisted	twisted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | He | a twisted leg and a hump |  | the tree |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent leg=Theme from tree=Source |

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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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