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title: Oi, why's Jem stuck luggin cabbages for that old bird? — Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, why's Jem stuck luggin cabbages for that old bird? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» 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 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, drea…

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Oi, why's Jem stuck luggin cabbages for that old bird?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jem · **What happens:** stick · **To what, where:** luggin cabbages

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» 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/1789-pg641-part40/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t1:1
# text = Oi, why's Jem stuck luggin cabbages for that old bird?
1	Oi	oi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	Jem	Jem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	luggin	luggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick** | past | Jem | luggin cabbages |  |  |  | for that old bird | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cabbage=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Cos she's too weak fer that

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t1:o1:1
# text = Cos she's too weak fer that
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	dep	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Cos she can't carry nothin herself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t1:o2:1
# text = Cos she can't carry nothin herself
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	nothin	nothin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **carry** | can | she | nothin |  |  |  | herself *= she* *obl* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothin=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cos Mum said he gotta help her every single day innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t1:o3:1
# text = Cos Mum said he gotta help her every single day innit
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
5	gotta	gotta	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
9	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **help** | infinitive | Mum *not said here* | Mum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cos she lost her strong legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t1:o4:1
# text = Cos she lost her strong legs
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | she | her strong legs |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Eventuality |

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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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