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title: Bruv, what did the parrot call him, a total mug? — English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what did the parrot call him, a total mug? Test 2 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the
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# Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr…

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Bruv, what did the parrot call him, a total mug?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** parrot · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Bruv · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t2:1
# text = Bruv, what did the parrot call him, a total mug?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	mug	mug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · do-support | the parrot | Bruv |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme he=Result |

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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 dim geezer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t2:o1:1
# text = a dim geezer
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	geezer	geezer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a mug

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t2:o2:1
# text = a mug
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mug	mug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a foolish man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t2:o3:1
# text = a foolish man
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a div

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t2:o4:1
# text = a div
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	div	div	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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