--- title: Lol, what did the valet nick off Jack? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golde… · tree and pragmatics description: Lol, what did the valet nick off Jack? Test 6 · ★ 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 optio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1954-pg7439-part13/t6/) [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/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golde…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1954-pg7439-part13/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13… Lol, what did the valet nick off Jack? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** valet · **What happens:** nick off · **To what, where:** Jack This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t6:1 # text = Lol, what did the valet nick off Jack? 1 Lol lol INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 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 valet valet NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 nick nick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 off off ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nick off** | past · do-support | the valet | Jack | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary jack=Theme | 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} the silver snuff-box ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t6:o1:1 # text = the silver snuff-box 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 silver silver 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 _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} his whole bag of gold and the golden snuff-box together ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t6:o2:1 # text = his whole bag of gold and the golden snuff-box together 1 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 snuff snuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 12 together together ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the golden snuff-box right out of his coat pocket ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t6:o3:1 # text = the golden snuff-box right out of his coat pocket 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|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 _ _ 6 right right ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 7 out out ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} the golden snuff-box ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t6:o4:1 # text = the golden snuff-box 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|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 _ _ ``` 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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