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title: What plant did Moti swing about like a weapon, innit? — Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to… · tree and pragmatics
description: What plant did Moti swing about like a weapon, innit? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1301 «Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pony and frightens a king into surrender.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 7 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pon…

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What plant did Moti swing about like a weapon, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** plant · **What happens:** swing, innit

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1301 «Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pony and frightens a king into surrender.» 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/1301-pg3454-part26/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1301-pg3454-part26:t7:1
# text = What plant did Moti swing about like a weapon, innit?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Moti	Moti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	swing	swing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swing** | past · do-support | what plant |  |  |  |  | like a weapon; about *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **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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A big cactus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1301-pg3454-part26:t7:o1:1
# text = A big cactus
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cactus	cactus	NOUN	NN	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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A thorny bush

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1301-pg3454-part26:t7:o2:1
# text = A thorny bush
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	thorny	thorny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A tall castor-oil plant near the road, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1301-pg3454-part26:t7:o3:1
# text = A tall castor-oil plant near the road, bruv
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	castor	castor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
```

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

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

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A castor-oil plant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1301-pg3454-part26:t7:o4:1
# text = A castor-oil plant
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	castor	castor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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