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title: Yo, so the goblins, right? John just yanked a whole oak door off its… — Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, so the goblins, right? John just yanked a whole oak door off its hinges and squashed them flat, proper mental Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1899 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Ludovine from the goblins, sleeps through his chances, and is carried off to the Low Countries.» of the 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Lud…

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Yo, so the goblins, right? John just yanked a whole oak door off its hinges and squashed them flat, proper mental

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** John · **What happens:** yank, squash · **To what, where:** whole oak door, hinges

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1899 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Ludovine from the goblins, sleeps through his chances, and is carried off to the Low Countries.» 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/1899-pg7277-part36/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Yo, so the goblins, right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1899-pg7277-part36:t1:1
# text = Yo, so the goblins, right?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	goblins	goblin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* John just yanked a whole oak door off its hinges and squashed them flat, proper mental

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1899-pg7277-part36:t1:2
# text = John just yanked a whole oak door off its hinges and squashed them flat, proper mental
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	yanked	yank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hinges	hinge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	squashed	squash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yank** | past | John | a whole oak door |  |  |  | off door's hinges | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient off hinge=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **squash** | participle | John *not said here* | hinges *= hinge* |  |  |  | flat *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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a big stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1899-pg7277-part36:t1:o1:1
# text = a big stick
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stick	stick	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 rock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1899-pg7277-part36:t1:o2:1
# text = a rock
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a heavy oak door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1899-pg7277-part36:t1:o3:1
# text = a heavy oak door
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	door	door	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 heavy oak table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1899-pg7277-part36:t1:o4:1
# text = a heavy oak table
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	table	table	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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