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title: Why did the eagle nick the ring off him, though? Proper harsh, that — pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Princ… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did the eagle nick the ring off him, though? Proper harsh, that Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1682 «pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Prince is caught and chained in a cave» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 6 · ★ · pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Prince is caught and chai…

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Why did the eagle nick the ring off him, though? Proper harsh, that

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** eagle · **What happens:** nick · **To what, where:** ring

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1682 «pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Prince is caught and chained in a cave» 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/1682-pg640-part6/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Why did the eagle nick the ring off him, though?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1682-pg640-part6:t6:1
# text = Why did the eagle nick the ring off him, though?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	nick	nick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	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 | **nick** | past · do-support | the eagle | the ring |  |  |  | off him *= he* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ring=Theme off he=Source |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Proper harsh, that

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1682-pg640-part6:t6:2
# text = Proper harsh, that
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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He'd bodged her twice over and nicked her ring off her finger, fair play to her, really

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1682-pg640-part6:t6:o1:1
# text = He'd bodged her twice over and nicked her ring off her finger, fair play to her, really
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bodged	bodg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	nicked	nick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bodg** | past · perfect | He | her *= she* |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **nick** | past | He *not said here* | her ring | her *= she* | her finger and fair play |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ring=Theme off finger=Source |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He'd left her and kept the ring, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1682-pg640-part6:t6:o2:1
# text = He'd left her and kept the ring, mate
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · perfect | He | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | past | He *not said here* | the ring and mate |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cos he'd bodged her, nicked her ring and then legged it back to the King's castle

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1682-pg640-part6:t6:o3:1
# text = Cos he'd bodged her, nicked her ring and then legged it back to the King's castle
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bodged	bodg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	nicked	nick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	legged	leg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bodg** | past · perfect | Cos | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **nick** | past | Cos | her ring |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient |
| 3 | **leg back** | past | Cos *not said here* | ring |  |  | then | to the King's castle | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He'd bodged her and nicked her ring, fair play

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1682-pg640-part6:t6:o4:1
# text = He'd bodged her and nicked her ring, fair play
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bodged	bodg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	nicked	nick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bodg** | past · perfect | He | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **nick** | past | He *not said here* | her ring and fair play |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient |

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