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title: Lol, what did Grannonia reckon foxes can't do? — Pentamerone, The Serpent, part 42: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what did Grannonia reckon foxes can't do? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 1905 «Pentamerone, The Serpent, part 42: the skin burns, the prince becomes a dove, and Grannonia goes after him with a fox» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 14 · ★ · Pentamerone, The Serpent, part 42: the skin burns, the pri…

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Lol, what did Grannonia reckon foxes can't do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Grannonia, foxes · **What happens:** reckon, not do

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1905 «Pentamerone, The Serpent, part 42: the skin burns, the prince becomes a dove, and Grannonia goes after him with a fox» 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/1905-pg7277-part42/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1905-pg7277-part42:t14:1
# text = Lol, what did Grannonia reckon foxes can't do?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Grannonia	Grannonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past · do-support | Grannonia |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **do** | can | foxes |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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be outwitted by any clever girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1905-pg7277-part42:t14:o1:1
# text = be outwitted by any clever girl
1	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	outwitted	outwit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **outwit** | infinitive · passive | any clever girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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

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be outwitted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1905-pg7277-part42:t14:o2:1
# text = be outwitted
1	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	outwitted	outwit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **outwit** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP» |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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be trusted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1905-pg7277-part42:t14:o3:1
# text = be trusted
1	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S» |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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be outwitted by a maiden on foot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1905-pg7277-part42:t14:o4:1
# text = be outwitted by a maiden on foot
1	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	outwitted	outwit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **outwit** | infinitive · passive | a maiden on foot |  |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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