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title: Yo, where did the Johnny-cake roll off to? — English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, where did the Johnny-cake roll off to? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1965 «English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut to pieces, Lazy Jack wins a bride, and a cake escapes from the oven» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut t…

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Yo, where did the Johnny-cake roll off to?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do off · **To what, where:** Johnny cake roll

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1965 «English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut to pieces, Lazy Jack wins a bride, and a cake escapes from the oven» 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/1965-pg7439-part24/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t11:1
# text = Yo, where did the Johnny-cake roll off to?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do off** | past |  | the Johnny cake roll |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roll=Eventuality |

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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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down the hill road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t11:o1:1
# text = down the hill road
1	down	down	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the window

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t11:o2:1
# text = the window
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	window	window	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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into the garden shed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t11:o3:1
# text = into the garden shed
1	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	shed	shed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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the open door of the house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t11:o4:1
# text = the open door of the house
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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