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title: so what's the big lesson then — English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what's the big lesson then Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1943 «English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, part 1: a lazy girl must spin five skeins a day or lose her head, and a little black impet offers to help» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, part 1: a lazy girl must…

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so what's the big lesson then

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** big lesson

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1943 «English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, part 1: a lazy girl must spin five skeins a day or lose her head, and a little black impet offers to help» 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/1943-pg7439-part2/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1943-pg7439-part2:t12:1
# text = so what's the big lesson then
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the big lesson |  |  | then |  | tree rules |

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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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don't lie, bruh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1943-pg7439-part2:t12:o1:1
# text = don't lie, bruh
1	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **lie** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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always tell the truth, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1943-pg7439-part2:t12:o2:1
# text = always tell the truth, mate
1	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
2	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the truth |  |  |  | mate *vocative*; always *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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don't wing it, be honest and guess better, bruh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1943-pg7439-part2:t12:o3:1
# text = don't wing it, be honest and guess better, bruh
1	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	guess	guess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* | wing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **guess** | present |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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never lie to the king, mate, it's bad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1943-pg7439-part2:t12:o4:1
# text = never lie to the king, mate, it's bad
1	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **lie** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the king and mate | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | mate |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |

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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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