--- title: So the brother just chopped the pumpkin and her hand off, innit? — Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Han… · tree and pragmatics description: So the brother just chopped the pumpkin and her hand off, innit? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1309 «Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel brother cuts off his sister's hand, and a prince finds her crying in a tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1309-pg3454-part34/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Han…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1309-pg3454-part34/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel… So the brother just chopped the pumpkin and her hand off, innit? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** brother · **What happens:** chop off, innit · **To what, where:** pumpkin This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1309 «Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel brother cuts off his sister's hand, and a prince finds her crying in a tree» 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/1309-pg3454-part34/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1309-pg3454-part34:t1:1 # text = So the brother just chopped the pumpkin and her hand off, innit? 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 chopped chop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 pumpkin pumpkin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 off off ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 innit innit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chop off** | past | the brother | the pumpkin and her hand | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pumpkin=Patient | | 2 | **innit** | infinitive | the brother *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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} Nah, not really ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1309-pg3454-part34:t1:o1:1 # text = Nah, not really 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Yeah, proper nasty, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1309-pg3454-part34:t1:o2:1 # text = Yeah, proper nasty, mate 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 nasty nasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 vocative _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Yeah, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1309-pg3454-part34:t1:o3:1 # text = Yeah, mate 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Yeah, it was well nasty ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1309-pg3454-part34:t1:o4:1 # text = Yeah, it was well nasty 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 6 nasty nasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | it | | | | | nasty, well *property* | tree rules | **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. 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