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title: Wait, so how did the robbers feel about the trick? — Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, so how did the robbers feel about the trick? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1639 «Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 28: the robbers buy the donkey and the guitar and are fooled again» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 11 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 2…

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Wait, so how did the robbers feel about the trick?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, robbers · **What happens:** wait, do, feel

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1639 «Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 28: the robbers buy the donkey and the guitar and are fooled again» 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/1639-pg5615-part28/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1639-pg5615-part28:t11:1
# text = Wait, so how did the robbers feel about the trick?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **feel** | present | the robbers |  |  |  |  | about the trick | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about trick=Location |

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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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Very angry and eager to get revenge on Joseph at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1639-pg5615-part28:t11:o1:1
# text = Very angry and eager to get revenge on Joseph at once
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | revenge |  | Joseph |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent revenge=Theme on joseph=Source |

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

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Fed up and ready for revenge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1639-pg5615-part28:t11:o2:1
# text = Fed up and ready for revenge
1	Fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for revenge | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Impressed and wanting to learn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1639-pg5615-part28:t11:o3:1
# text = Impressed and wanting to learn
1	Impressed	impressed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **learn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Amused

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1639-pg5615-part28:t11:o4:1
# text = Amused
1	Amused	amused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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