--- title: Lol, so he sold plums in a fake beard? Gutted for the Princess! — Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Lol, so he sold plums in a fake beard? Gutted for the Princess! Test 4 · ★ 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 questi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1901-pg7277-part38/t4/) [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/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic… Lol, so he sold plums in a fake beard? Gutted for the Princess! **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** sell, gut · **To what, where:** plums, fake beard This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Lol, so he sold plums in a fake beard? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t4:1 # text = Lol, so he sold plums in a fake beard? 1 Lol lol INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sold sell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 plums plum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 beard beard NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sell** | past | he | plums | | a fake beard | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plum=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:* Gutted for the Princess! ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t4:2 # text = Gutted for the Princess! 1 Gutted gut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gut** | participle | | | | | | for the Princess | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} at the church door in the village square ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t4:o1:1 # text = at the church door in the village square 1 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 square square NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} by the river bank ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t4:o2:1 # text = by the river bank 1 by by ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} at the church door ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t4:o3:1 # text = at the church door 1 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} sitting at the church door all day long ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t4:o4:1 # text = sitting at the church door all day long 1 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | gerund | | | | the church door | day | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | **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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