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title: What rule can he not break in Elfland? — English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: What rule can he not break in Elfland? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1960 «English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tricks the chicken-crew into his cave, and Childe Rowland enters the Dark Tower of Elfland» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tr…

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What rule can he not break in Elfland?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** rule · **What happens:** not break · **To what, where:** Elfland

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1960 «English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tricks the chicken-crew into his cave, and Childe Rowland enters the Dark Tower of Elfland» 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/1960-pg7439-part19/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t9:1
# text = What rule can he not break in Elfland?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Elfland	Elfland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **break** | can | what rule |  |  | Elfland |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in elfland=Location |

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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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Never bite, drink, or sleep, and kill every herd on sight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t9:o1:1
# text = Never bite, drink, or sleep, and kill every herd on sight
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	bite	bite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bite** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drink** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kill** | infinitive | you *not said here* | every herd |  | sight |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme |

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

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Bite no bit, drink no drop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t9:o2:1
# text = Bite no bit, drink no drop
1	Bite	bite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | imperative | you *not said here* | no bit |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient |
| 2 | **drink** | infinitive | you *not said here* | no drop |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Eat nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t9:o3:1
# text = Eat nothing
1	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Don't speak to any herd

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t9:o4:1
# text = Don't speak to any herd
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to any herd | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to herd=Co-Agent |

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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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