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title: Was the old hag proper dodgy, innit? — Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the old hag proper dodgy, innit? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1581 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderlad sets out to watch the seven foals and meets the old hag» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 2 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderla…

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Was the old hag proper dodgy, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** old hag · **What happens:** be, innit

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1581 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderlad sets out to watch the seven foals and meets the old hag» 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/1581-pg540-part78/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1581-pg540-part78:t2:1
# text = Was the old hag proper dodgy, innit?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the old hag |  |  |  |  | dodgy, properly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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She fooled the lads into leaving work

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1581-pg540-part78:t2:o1:1
# text = She fooled the lads into leaving work
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fooled	fool	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fool** | past | She | the lads |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | She *not said here* | work |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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She tricked the lads into skiving all day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1581-pg540-part78:t2:o2:1
# text = She tricked the lads into skiving all day
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tricked	trick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	skiving	skive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | past | She | the lads |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Patient |
| 2 | **skive** | gerund | She *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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She tricked the lads into staying late

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1581-pg540-part78:t2:o3:1
# text = She tricked the lads into staying late
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tricked	trick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | past | She | the lads |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Patient |
| 2 | **stay** | gerund | She *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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She tricked the lads into skiving all day and then fed them nothing at all

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1581-pg540-part78:t2:o4:1
# text = She tricked the lads into skiving all day and then fed them nothing at all
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tricked	trick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	skiving	skive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | past | She | the lads |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Patient |
| 2 | **skive** | gerund | She *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feed** | past | She *not said here* | lads *= lad* |  | all | then |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient nothing=Theme |

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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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