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title: what did Homer nick the old stories for? — The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad,… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did Homer nick the old stories for? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1276 «The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy's mother saves up to send him to school and then to a trade» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 10 · ★ · The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy…

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what did Homer nick the old stories for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Homer · **What happens:** nick · **To what, where:** old stories

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1276 «The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy's mother saves up to send him to school and then to a trade» 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/1276-pg3454-part1/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1276-pg3454-part1:t10:1
# text = what did Homer nick the old stories for?
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	Homer	Homer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	nick	nick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nick** | past · do-support | Homer | the old stories |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary story=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The Odyssey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1276-pg3454-part1:t10:o1:1
# text = The Odyssey
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Odyssey	Odyssey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The great epic about the Trojan war and Achilles' rage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1276-pg3454-part1:t10:o2:1
# text = The great epic about the Trojan war and Achilles' rage
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	epic	epic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Trojan	trojan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	Achilles	Achilles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rage** |  | Achilles |  |  |  |  |  | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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A long book of old fables and songs for young readers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1276-pg3454-part1:t10:o3:1
# text = A long book of old fables and songs for young readers
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Aeneid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1276-pg3454-part1:t10:o4:1
# text = The Aeneid
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Aeneid	Aeneid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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