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title: Yo, what did the dude snatch outta the barber's hand, innit? — Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what did the dude snatch outta the barber's hand, innit? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» 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 1 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, th…

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Yo, what did the dude snatch outta the barber's hand, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hand · **What happens:** do, innit · **To what, where:** snatch outta

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» 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/1547-pg540-part44/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:t1:1
# text = Yo, what did the dude snatch outta the barber's hand, innit?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	snatch	snatch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	outta	outta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	barber	barber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the snatch outta |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive | the barber's hand *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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the scissors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:t1:o1:1
# text = the scissors
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scissors	scissors	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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the hot towel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:t1:o2:1
# text = the hot towel
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	towel	towel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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the barber's silver shaving blade

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:t1:o3:1
# text = the barber's silver shaving blade
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	barber	barber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	shaving	shave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shave** | gerund | the barber's silver *not said here* | blade |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blade=Patient |

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

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the razor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:t1:o4:1
# text = the razor
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	razor	razor	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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