--- title: Bare dodgy deal, yeah? When did the miller realise he was in trouble? — Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond,… · tree and pragmatics description: Bare dodgy deal, yeah? When did the miller realise he was in trouble? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1702 «Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor miller strikes a bargain with a water spirit» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1702-pg640-part26/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/) / [Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1702-pg640-part26/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor mill… Bare dodgy deal, yeah? When did the miller realise he was in trouble? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** miller · **What happens:** realise, be · **To what, where:** trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1702 «Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor miller strikes a bargain with a water spirit» 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/1702-pg640-part26/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Bare dodgy deal, yeah? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1702-pg640-part26:t4:1 # text = Bare dodgy deal, yeah? 1 Bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 dodgy dodgy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. *Sentence 2:* When did the miller realise he was in trouble? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1702-pg640-part26:t4:2 # text = When did the miller realise he was in trouble? 1 When when 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 miller miller NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 realise realise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **realise** | past · do-support | the miller | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | miller | | | trouble | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} when the wife had the baby ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1702-pg640-part26:t4:o1:1 # text = when the wife had the baby 1 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the wife | the baby | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} at the wedding ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1702-pg640-part26:t4:o2:1 # text = at the wedding 1 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} when the nixy first appeared ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1702-pg640-part26:t4:o3:1 # text = when the nixy first appeared 1 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 nixy nixy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 advmod _ _ 5 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | past | the nixy | | | | | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} at dawn ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1702-pg640-part26:t4:o4:1 # text = at dawn 1 at at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 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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