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title: Innit mad, why were the spoons wooden and not silver? — English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Cast… · tree and pragmatics
description: Innit mad, why were the spoons wooden and not silver? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1956 «English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the castle home and meets his wife and son» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 13 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the…

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Innit mad, why were the spoons wooden and not silver?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** spoons · **What happens:** be, not silver

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1956 «English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the castle home and meets his wife and son» 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/1956-pg7439-part15/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t13:1
# text = Innit mad, why were the spoons wooden and not silver?
1	Innit	Innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spoons	spoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	silver	silver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the spoons |  |  |  |  | wooden *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **silver** | infinitive | the spoons *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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silver would have gone straight into her pocket and been found out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t13:o1:1
# text = silver would have gone straight into her pocket and been found out
1	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | would · perfect | silver |  |  | her pocket |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into pocket=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find out** | participle · passive | silver *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic» |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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silver would have gone in her pocket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t13:o2:1
# text = silver would have gone in her pocket
1	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | would · perfect | silver |  |  | her pocket |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pocket=Location |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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they were wooden because the bears were too poor to buy silver ones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t13:o3:1
# text = they were wooden because the bears were too poor to buy silver ones
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | they |  |  |  |  | wooden *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the bears |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **buy** | to-infinitive | the bears *not said here* | silver ones |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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they were wooden and she liked them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t13:o4:1
# text = they were wooden and she liked them
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | they |  |  |  |  | wooden *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **like** | past | she | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |

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