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title: Innit, who knocked the horn outta the bloke's grubby hand? — Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Ea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Innit, who knocked the horn outta the bloke's grubby hand? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 157 «Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogue, a proud horse and other short tales» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogu…

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Innit, who knocked the horn outta the bloke's grubby hand?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Innit · **What happens:** knock · **To what, where:** horn outta

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 157 «Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogue, a proud horse and other short tales» 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/157-pg11339-part27/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t3:1
# text = Innit, who knocked the horn outta the bloke's grubby hand?
1	Innit	Innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	outta	outta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	grubby	grubby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | past | Innit | the horn outta |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent outta=Destination hand=Theme |

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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 Crow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t3:o1:1
# text = The Crow
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 Serpent that had been spitting into the horn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t3:o2:1
# text = The Serpent that had been spitting into the horn
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux	_	_
6	spitting	spit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spit** | past · perfect · progressive | the Serpent |  |  | the horn |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The bloke who was holding the horn at the time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t3:o3:1
# text = The bloke who was holding the horn at the time
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · progressive | the bloke | the horn |  |  | time |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Eagle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t3:o4:1
# text = The Eagle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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