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title: Is a glutton just someone who scoffs loads, like a total greedy guts? — Crimson Fairy Book, The Grateful Beast… · tree and pragmatics
description: Is a glutton just someone who scoffs loads, like a total greedy guts? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1692 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts, part 1: a hungry youth is robbed of his bread and maimed by his brothers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 7 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts, part 1: a hungry…

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Is a glutton just someone who scoffs loads, like a total greedy guts?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, scoff · **To what, where:** glutton, loads

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1692 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts, part 1: a hungry youth is robbed of his bread and maimed by his brothers» 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/1692-pg640-part16/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1692-pg640-part16:t7:1
# text = Is a glutton just someone who scoffs loads, like a total greedy guts?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	glutton	glutton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nmod	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	scoffs	scoff	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	guts	gut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a glutton |  |  |  | someone *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **scoff** | present |  | loads and a total greedy guts |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme |

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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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Nah, someone who's just skinny

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1692-pg640-part16:t7:o1:1
# text = Nah, someone who's just skinny
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	skinny	skinny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | someone | skinny |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, a thief

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1692-pg640-part16:t7:o2:1
# text = Nah, a thief
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a massive greedy guts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1692-pg640-part16:t7:o3:1
# text = Yeah, a massive greedy guts
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	guts	gut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yeah, a glutton

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1692-pg640-part16:t7:o4:1
# text = Yeah, a glutton
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	glutton	glutton	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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