--- title: So the town was skint and proper gutted, yeah? — Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part… · tree and pragmatics description: So the town was skint and proper gutted, yeah? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1552 «Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becomes king, and the piper clears Hamel of rats, then the children vanish» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1552-pg540-part49/t4/) [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/) / [Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1552-pg540-part49/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becom… So the town was skint and proper gutted, yeah? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** town · **What happens:** be, gut This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1552 «Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becomes king, and the piper clears Hamel of rats, then the children vanish» 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/1552-pg540-part49/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1552-pg540-part49:t4:1 # text = So the town was skint and proper gutted, yeah? 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 skint skint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 gutted gut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the town | | | | | skint *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **gut** | participle | the town *not said here* | | | | | | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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, they were well skint and gutted and the Counsellor was loaded ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1552-pg540-part49:t4:o1:1 # text = Yeah, they were well skint and gutted and the Counsellor was loaded 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 6 skint skint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 gutted gut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Counsellor Counsellor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 loaded load VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | they | | | | | skint, well *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **gut** | participle | they *not said here* | | | | | | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **load** | past · passive | | the Counsellor | | | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Yeah, they were well skint and gutted ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1552-pg540-part49:t4:o2:1 # text = Yeah, they were well skint and gutted 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 6 skint skint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 gutted gut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | they | | | | | skint, well *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **gut** | participle | they *not said here* | | | | | | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Yeah, they were quite happy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1552-pg540-part49:t4:o3:1 # text = Yeah, they were quite happy 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 quite quite ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | they | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Nah, they were well loaded after the rats had gone home ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1552-pg540-part49:t4:o4:1 # text = Nah, they were well loaded after the rats had gone home 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 5 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 6 loaded load VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 after after SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 12 home home ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **load** | past · passive | | they | | | | well *property* | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past · perfect | the rats | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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