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title: Ngl, who nicked Moti's money? — Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, who nicked Moti's money? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1299 «Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24: Lasse dreams of sailing the world, wakes in his boat, and Moti is robbed at an inn» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 12 · ★ · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24: Lasse dreams of sai…

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Ngl, who nicked Moti's money?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ngl · **What happens:** nick · **To what, where:** money

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1299 «Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24: Lasse dreams of sailing the world, wakes in his boat, and Moti is robbed at an inn» 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/1299-pg3454-part24/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1299-pg3454-part24:t12:1
# text = Ngl, who nicked Moti's money?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	nicked	nick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Moti	Moti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nick** | past | Ngl | Moti's money |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |

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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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two Afghan horsedealers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1299-pg3454-part24:t12:o1:1
# text = two Afghan horsedealers
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	Afghan	Afghan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horsedealers	horsedealer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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two bearded merchants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1299-pg3454-part24:t12:o2:1
# text = two bearded merchants
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	bearded	bearded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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some thieves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1299-pg3454-part24:t12:o3:1
# text = some thieves
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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two Persian camel drivers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1299-pg3454-part24:t12:o4:1
# text = two Persian camel drivers
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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