--- title: Dead funny, how chuffed was the King? — Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegr… · tree and pragmatics description: Dead funny, how chuffed was the King? Test 8 · ★ 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 opt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1560-pg540-part57/t8/) [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, Dapplegr…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1560-pg540-part57/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the yout… Dead funny, how chuffed was the King? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** chuff, be · **To what, where:** funny King This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t8:1 # text = Dead funny, how chuffed was the King? 1 Dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 5 chuffed chuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chuff** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | past | | the funny King | | | | | tree rules | 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} Chuffed enough to dance around the great hall ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t8:o1:1 # text = Chuffed enough to dance around the great hall 1 Chuffed chuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 enough enough ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 dance dance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 5 around around ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chuff** | participle | | | | | | enough *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **dance** | to-infinitive | | | | the great hall | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around hall=Location | ### Option 2 {#o2} Pleased enough to weep ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t8:o2:1 # text = Pleased enough to weep 1 Pleased please VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 enough enough ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 weep weep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **please** | participle | | | | | | enough *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **weep** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Happy enough to sing ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t8:o3:1 # text = Happy enough to sing 1 Happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 enough enough ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Chuffed enough to dance ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t8:o4:1 # text = Chuffed enough to dance 1 Chuffed chuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 enough enough ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 dance dance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chuff** | participle | | | | | | enough *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **dance** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «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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