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title: No cap, what did the boys all scream for? — Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: No cap, what did the boys all scream for? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 11 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tr…

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No cap, what did the boys all scream for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cap · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** boys

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» 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/1521-pg540-part18/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t11:1
# text = No cap, what did the boys all scream for?
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	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	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	scream	scream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | no cap | the boys |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a drop of brandy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t11:o1:1
# text = a drop of brandy
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	brandy	brandy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a glass of wine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t11:o2:1
# text = a glass of wine
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a sip of strong brandy from the Governor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t11:o3:1
# text = a sip of strong brandy from the Governor
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sip	sip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	brandy	brandy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Governor	Governor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sip** |  |  | strong brandy from the Governor |  |  |  |  | nom sip «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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a bottle of brandy for each boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t11:o4:1
# text = a bottle of brandy for each boy
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	brandy	brandy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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