--- title: Did the hermit reckon the youth was being proper dumb? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants,… · tree and pragmatics description: Did the hermit reckon the youth was being proper dumb? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1643 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 32: the new helpers join the ship and the king's fleet is blinded by fog» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1643-pg5615-part32/t4/) [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/) / [Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1643-pg5615-part32/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 32: the new he… Did the hermit reckon the youth was being proper dumb? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** hermit, youth · **What happens:** reckon, be This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1643 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 32: the new helpers join the ship and the king's fleet is blinded by fog» 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/1643-pg5615-part32/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1643-pg5615-part32:t4:1 # text = Did the hermit reckon the youth was being proper dumb? 1 Did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 hermit hermit NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 reckon reckon VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 cop _ _ 9 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 dumb dumb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reckon** | past · do-support | the hermit | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | the youth | | | | | dumb *property* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Yeah, he called him Silly boy, proper ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1643-pg5615-part32:t4:o1:1 # text = Yeah, he called him Silly boy, proper 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 Silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | past | he | | him *= he* | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ### Option 2 {#o2} Yeah, he reckoned he was a bit daft ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1643-pg5615-part32:t4:o2:1 # text = Yeah, he reckoned he was a bit daft 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 reckoned reckon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 daft daft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reckon** | past | he | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | he | | | | | a bit *obl:unmarked*; daft *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Nah, he thought he was quite clever ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1643-pg5615-part32:t4:o3:1 # text = Nah, he thought he was quite clever 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 quite quite ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | he | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | he | | | | | clever *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Nah, not really ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1643-pg5615-part32:t4:o4:1 # text = Nah, not really 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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