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title: Ay mate, what did his own mum call him, like, proper rude? — Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ay mate, what did his own mum call him, like, proper rude? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls…

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Ay mate, what did his own mum call him, like, proper rude?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** own mum · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** him · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» 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/1790-pg641-part41/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t1:1
# text = Ay mate, what did his own mum call him, like, proper rude?
1	Ay	ay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | his own mum |  | him *= he* |  |  | Ay mate *vocative* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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a hideous dwarf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t1:o1:1
# text = a hideous dwarf
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a dwarf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t1:o2:1
# text = a dwarf
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a freak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t1:o3:1
# text = a freak
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	freak	freak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a hideous goblin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t1:o4:1
# text = a hideous goblin
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	goblin	goblin	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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