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title: Innit true the shoes were dead strong? — Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Innit true the shoes were dead strong? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1560 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the youth wins a huge dappled horse and rides to the King's palace» 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 6 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the yout…

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Innit true the shoes were dead strong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** true shoes · **What happens:** be

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1560 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the youth wins a huge dappled horse and rides to the King's palace» 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/1560-pg540-part57/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t6:1
# text = Innit true the shoes were dead strong?
1	Innit	Innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the true shoes |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | 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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Mud and leaves blew up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t6:o1:1
# text = Mud and leaves blew up
1	Mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow up** | past | Mud and leaves |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Sticks and stones flew up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t6:o2:1
# text = Sticks and stones flew up
1	Sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly up** | past | Sticks and stones |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Sticks and stones flew up into the air above the whole stable yard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t6:o3:1
# text = Sticks and stones flew up into the air above the whole stable yard
1	Sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	above	above	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly up** | past | Sticks and stones |  |  | the air |  | above the whole stable yard | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above yard=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sticks and stones flew high up into the air over the whole yard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t6:o4:1
# text = Sticks and stones flew high up into the air over the whole yard
1	Sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | Sticks and stones |  |  | the air |  | over the whole yard | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over yard=Location |

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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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