--- title: Wait, the plums gave him HORNS? That's well wicked, bro! — Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, the plums gave him HORNS? That's well wicked, bro! Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1901 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic plums, sells them, and unmasks the horned Princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1901-pg7277-part38/t2/) [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 Little Soldier, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1901-pg7277-part38/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic… Wait, the plums gave him HORNS? That's well wicked, bro! **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, plums, That · **What happens:** wait, give, be · **To what, where:** HORNS, him This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1901 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic plums, sells them, and unmasks the horned Princess» 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/1901-pg7277-part38/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Wait, the plums gave him HORNS? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t2:1 # text = Wait, the plums gave him HORNS? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 plums plum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 HORNS horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **give** | past | the plums | HORNS | him *= he* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horn=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* That's well wicked, bro! ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t2:2 # text = That's well wicked, bro! 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 4 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | That | | | | | bro *vocative*; well, wicked *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} yellow ones gave horns ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t2:o1:1 # text = yellow ones gave horns 1 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | yellow ones | horns | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} yellow ones ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t2:o2:1 # text = yellow ones 1 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} green ones gave horns ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t2:o3:1 # text = green ones gave horns 1 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | green ones | horns | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} the yellow ones gave him horns ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t2:o4:1 # text = the yellow ones gave him horns 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | the yellow ones | horns | him *= he* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horn=Theme | **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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