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title: yo did the crab actually talk at dinner innit — Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Cr… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo did the crab actually talk at dinner innit Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1684 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab builds a wall and garden, then his secret is betrayed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab…

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yo did the crab actually talk at dinner innit

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** yo, crab · **What happens:** do, talk · **To what, where:** crab, dinner innit

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1684 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab builds a wall and garden, then his secret is betrayed» 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/1684-pg640-part8/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:t1:1
# text = yo did the crab actually talk at dinner innit
1	yo	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | yo | the crab |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crab=Eventuality |
| 2 | **talk** | present | the crab *not said here* |  |  | dinner innit |  | actually *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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"Give me some too"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:t1:o1:1
# text = "Give me some too"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | some | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient some=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bring me another plate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:t1:o2:1
# text = Bring me another plate
1	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* | another plate | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination plate=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:t1:o3:1
# text = Hi
1	Hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Eat up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:t1:o4:1
# text = Eat up
1	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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