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title: Yo, who was chilling in that sack the wife nicked? — pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, who was chilling in that sack the wife nicked? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1777 «pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack, then a dog who digs up gold and is killed by a greedy neighbour» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 1 · ★ · pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack,…

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Yo, who was chilling in that sack the wife nicked?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** chill, nick · **To what, where:** sack, wife

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1777 «pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack, then a dog who digs up gold and is killed by a greedy neighbour» 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/1777-pg641-part28/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:t1:1
# text = Yo, who was chilling in that sack the wife nicked?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	chilling	chill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	nicked	nick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chill** | past · progressive |  |  |  | that sack and the wife |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **nick** | participle |  | the wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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Two ruffians

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:t1:o1:1
# text = Two ruffians
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	ruffians	ruffian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Three goons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:t1:o2:1
# text = Three goons
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	goons	goon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Like two ruffians with big sticks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:t1:o3:1
# text = Like two ruffians with big sticks
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	ruffians	ruffian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Two ruffians wiv sticks, innit mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:t1:o4:1
# text = Two ruffians wiv sticks, innit mate
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	ruffians	ruffian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	wiv	wiv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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