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title: Wait, what made the deaf girl finally laugh, innit? — English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what made the deaf girl finally laugh, innit? Test 2 · ★ 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 qu
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# Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut t…

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Wait, what made the deaf girl finally laugh, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, make, laugh, innit · **To what, where:** deaf girl

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t2:1
# text = Wait, what made the deaf girl finally laugh, innit?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past |  | the deaf girl |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material girl=Product |
| 3 | **laugh** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **innit** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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a cat falling off the roof

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t2:o1:1
# text = a cat falling off the roof
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall off** | gerund | a cat *not said here* | the roof |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient roof=Extent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a donkey with legs in the air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t2:o2:1
# text = a donkey with legs in the air
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a man sliding down stairs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t2:o3:1
# text = a man sliding down stairs
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	sliding	slide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slide down** | gerund | a man *not said here* | stairs |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stair=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a dancing cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t2:o4:1
# text = a dancing cat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cat	cat	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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**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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