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title: Who was the nosy sprite who turned into a fly, innit? — Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was the nosy sprite who turned into a fly, innit? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1291 «Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is found, then Puck starts his pranks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is fo…

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Who was the nosy sprite who turned into a fly, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nosy sprite · **What happens:** be, turn, innit · **To what, where:** nosy sprite

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1291 «Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is found, then Puck starts his pranks» 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/1291-pg3454-part16/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t3:1
# text = Who was the nosy sprite who turned into a fly, innit?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	nosy	nosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sprite	sprite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the nosy sprite |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | past | the nosy sprite |  |  |  |  | into a fly *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into fly=Result |
| 3 | **innit** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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Some cheeky mischievous sprite from the mountains, the one that everyone talks about

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t3:o1:1
# text = Some cheeky mischievous sprite from the mountains, the one that everyone talks about
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
2	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sprite	sprite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
13	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk about** | present | the one |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The fairy, the nosy one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t3:o2:1
# text = The fairy, the nosy one
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	nosy	nosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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That nosy little fairy who loved to play tricks on the villagers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t3:o3:1
# text = That nosy little fairy who loved to play tricks on the villagers
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	nosy	nosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	villagers	villager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | nosy little fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | nosy little fairy *not said here* | tricks |  | the villagers |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Puck, the cheeky sprite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t3:o4:1
# text = Puck, the cheeky sprite
1	Puck	puck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sprite	sprite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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