--- title: Did the sheriff's shovel-handle idea actually work, bruv? — Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mast… · tree and pragmatics description: Did the sheriff's shovel-handle idea actually work, bruv? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1445 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid: the bailiff is tricked into chasing a calf all night, and at last the wedding is held» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1445-pg503-part32/t12/) [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/) / [Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mast…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1445-pg503-part32/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid: the bailiff… Did the sheriff's shovel-handle idea actually work, bruv? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** shovel handle idea This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1445 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid: the bailiff is tricked into chasing a calf all night, and at last the wedding is held» 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/1445-pg503-part32/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1445-pg503-part32:t12:1 # text = Did the sheriff's shovel-handle idea actually work, bruv? 1 Did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sheriff sheriff NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 shovel shovel NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 handle handle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 9 actually actually ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | the sheriff's shovel handle idea work and bruv | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Eventuality | 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} Yeah, it worked fine ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1445-pg503-part32:t12:o1:1 # text = Yeah, it worked fine 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 worked work VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | past | it | | | | | fine *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Nah, it broke ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1445-pg503-part32:t12:o2:1 # text = Nah, it broke 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | past | it | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Yeah, it did ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1445-pg503-part32:t12:o3:1 # text = Yeah, it did 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | it | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Yeah, it held fast ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1445-pg503-part32:t12:o4:1 # text = Yeah, it held fast 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past | it | | | | | fast *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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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