--- title: what did the Moon reckon she smelt? — Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a… · tree and pragmatics description: what did the Moon reckon she smelt? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1896 «Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses his magic box and goes looking for it across the sky» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1896-pg7277-part33/t10/) [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 Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1896-pg7277-part33/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses hi… what did the Moon reckon she smelt? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Moon · **What happens:** do, reckon, smelt This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1896 «Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses his magic box and goes looking for it across the sky» 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/1896-pg7277-part33/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:t10:1 # text = what did the Moon reckon she smelt? 1 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 reckon reckon VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 smelt smelt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **reckon** | present | the Moon | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **smelt** | infinitive | Moon | | | | | | tree rules | 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} the sweet smell of a Christian man's flesh ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:t10:o1:1 # text = the sweet smell of a Christian man's flesh 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Christian Christian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smell** | | a Christian man's flesh | | | | | | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} fresh bread and wine ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:t10:o2:1 # text = fresh bread and wine 1 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} mortal flesh and blood ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:t10:o3:1 # text = mortal flesh and blood 1 mortal mortal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} old tallow and smoke ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:t10:o4:1 # text = old tallow and smoke 1 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 tallow tallow NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` 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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