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title: What did he reckon he'd look like in it? — Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did he reckon he'd look like in it? Test 15 · ★ of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 15 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: t…

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What did he reckon he'd look like in it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** reckon, look

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This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» 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/1247-pg3282-part48/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t15:1
# text = What did he reckon he'd look like in it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past · do-support | he |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | would | he |  |  |  |  | like it | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Richer than everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t15:o1:1
# text = Richer than everyone
1	Richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Smarter than everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t15:o2:1
# text = Smarter than everyone
1	Smarter	smart	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Smarter than everyone in the whole village

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t15:o3:1
# text = Smarter than everyone in the whole village
1	Smarter	smart	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Taller than everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t15:o4:1
# text = Taller than everyone
1	Taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	_
```

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

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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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