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title: So John strolls in as a doctor with a wig and specs? Dead clever! — Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: So John strolls in as a doctor with a wig and specs? Dead clever! Test 8 · ★ 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 ques
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic…

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So John strolls in as a doctor with a wig and specs? Dead clever!

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** John · **What happens:** stroll in

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* So John strolls in as a doctor with a wig and specs?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t8:1
# text = So John strolls in as a doctor with a wig and specs?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	strolls	stroll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wig	wig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	specs	spec	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stroll in** | present | John |  |  |  |  | as a doctor; with a wig and specs | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Dead clever!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t8:2
# text = Dead clever!
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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a grey wig and round spectacles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t8:o1:1
# text = a grey wig and round spectacles
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wig	wig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a wig and spectacles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t8:o2:1
# text = a wig and spectacles
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wig	wig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a hat and a cloak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t8:o3:1
# text = a hat and a cloak
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a beard and a mask

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t8:o4:1
# text = a beard and a mask
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mask	mask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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