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title: Oi, mate, what did Vinegar swap his gloves for, like, honest? — English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, mate, what did Vinegar swap his gloves for, like, honest? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1947 «English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king promises his son to a giant, and the boy escapes with the giant's daughter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr…

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Oi, mate, what did Vinegar swap his gloves for, like, honest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Vinegar · **What happens:** swap · **To what, where:** Oi

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1947 «English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king promises his son to a giant, and the boy escapes with the giant's daughter» 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/1947-pg7439-part6/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t1:1
# text = Oi, mate, what did Vinegar swap his gloves for, like, honest?
1	Oi	oi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	Vinegar	Vinegar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	swap	swap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swap** | past · do-support | Vinegar | Oi |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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a cane

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t1:o1:1
# text = a cane
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a load of loot, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t1:o2:1
# text = a load of loot, bruv
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	loot	loot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a good stout stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t1:o3:1
# text = a good stout stick
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	stout	stout	ADJ	NN	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	_
4	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t1:o4:1
# text = a stick
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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