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title: Honest, whose clothes did the youth nick for the disguise? — The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon… · tree and pragmatics
description: Honest, whose clothes did the youth nick for the disguise? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1613 «The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2: a clever youth tricks a king, a shepherd and a dragon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 7 · ★ · The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2:…

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Honest, whose clothes did the youth nick for the disguise?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Honest clothes · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** youth nick

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1613 «The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2: a clever youth tricks a king, a shepherd and a dragon» 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/1613-pg5615-part2/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1613-pg5615-part2:t7:1
# text = Honest, whose clothes did the youth nick for the disguise?
1	Honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	nick	nick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Honest clothes | the youth nick |  |  |  | for the disguise | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nick=Eventuality |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A poor beggar's rags from the bridge by the town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1613-pg5615-part2:t7:o1:1
# text = A poor beggar's rags from the bridge by the town
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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A beggar's, sorted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1613-pg5615-part2:t7:o2:1
# text = A beggar's, sorted
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sorted	sort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sort** | participle |  | a beggar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A farmer's, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1613-pg5615-part2:t7:o3:1
# text = A farmer's, mate
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A smith's, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1613-pg5615-part2:t7:o4:1
# text = A smith's, innit
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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