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title: Did his missus give him a proper telling-off, or what? — English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did his missus give him a proper telling-off, or what? Test 3 · ★ 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 
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# Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr…

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Did his missus give him a proper telling-off, or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** missus · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** proper telling off

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t3:1
# text = Did his missus give him a proper telling-off, or what?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	missus	missus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	telling	telling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	off	off	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · do-support | his missus | a proper telling off |  |  |  |  | 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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a right good clip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t3:o1:1
# text = a right good clip
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	clip	clip	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 slap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t3:o2:1
# text = a slap
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	slap	slap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a telling-off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t3:o3:1
# text = a telling-off
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	telling	telling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	off	off	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a sound cudgelling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t3:o4:1
# text = a sound cudgelling
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cudgelling	cudgelling	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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