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title: Did his dad give him a cool gadget, or nah? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golde… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did his dad give him a cool gadget, or nah? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1954 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13: Jack wins a castle, loses it, and sets out to find it» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13…

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Did his dad give him a cool gadget, or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** cool gadget, him

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1954 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13: Jack wins a castle, loses it, and sets out to find it» 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/1954-pg7439-part13/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t2:1
# text = Did his dad give him a cool gadget, or nah?
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	dad	dad	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	8	det	_	_
7	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	gadget	gadget	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 dad | a cool gadget | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient gadget=Theme |

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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 brass pocket watch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t2:o1:1
# text = a brass pocket watch
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	watch	watch	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 fat wallet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t2:o2:1
# text = a fat wallet
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wallet	wallet	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 shiny golden snuff-box and a cracking old horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t2:o3:1
# text = a shiny golden snuff-box and a cracking old horse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	snuff	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	cracking	cracking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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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 golden snuff-box

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t2:o4:1
# text = a golden snuff-box
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	snuff	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	box	box	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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