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title: Dead funny, what did the gentleman reckon the offer was? — Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead funny, what did the gentleman reckon the offer was? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1675 «Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the oven» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 11 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the o…

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Dead funny, what did the gentleman reckon the offer was?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** gentleman · **What happens:** be

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1675 «Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the oven» 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/1675-pg5615-part64/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1675-pg5615-part64:t11:1
# text = Dead funny, what did the gentleman reckon the offer was?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · do-support | the gentleman |  |  |  |  | reckon *property* | 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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no

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1675-pg5615-part64:t11:o1:1
# text = no
1	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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a trap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1675-pg5615-part64:t11:o2:1
# text = a trap
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a lie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1675-pg5615-part64:t11:o3:1
# text = a lie
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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a joke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1675-pg5615-part64:t11:o4:1
# text = a joke
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	joke	joke	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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**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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