--- title: Who had no kids for ages before the baby came, innit? — English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothin… · tree and pragmatics description: Who had no kids for ages before the baby came, innit? Test 4 · ★ 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 o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1947-pg7439-part6/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1947-pg7439-part6/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr… Who had no kids for ages before the baby came, innit? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** baby · **What happens:** have, come, innit · **To what, where:** kids This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t4:1 # text = Who had no kids for ages before the baby came, innit? 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 ages age NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 before before SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 innit innit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | | no kids | | | for ages | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient | | 2 | **come** | past | the baby | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **innit** | infinitive | the baby *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} the king and the queen ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t4:o1:1 # text = the king and the queen 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the baker and his missus ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t4:o2:1 # text = the baker and his missus 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 baker baker NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 missus missus NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the king and queen, who were rich, innit ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t4:o3:1 # text = the king and queen, who were rich, innit 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 innit innit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the king and queen and innit | | | | | rich *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} the farmer and his wife ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t4:o4:1 # text = the farmer and his wife 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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