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title: Dude, what did Jack's mum call him when he messed up the cheese? — English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, what did Jack's mum call him when he messed up the cheese? Test 8 · ★ 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 pragmat
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# Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut t…

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Dude, what did Jack's mum call him when he messed up the cheese?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude, mum · **What happens:** do, call, mess up · **To what, where:** Dude, cheese · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t8:1
# text = Dude, what did Jack's mum call him when he messed up the cheese?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	messed	mess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Dude |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | present | Jack's mum |  | Dude |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **mess up** | past | Dude | the cheese |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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a lazy good-for-nothing little lout

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t8:o1:1
# text = a lazy good-for-nothing little lout
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
2	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	compound	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lout	lout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a stupid lout who never learns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t8:o2:1
# text = a stupid lout who never learns
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lout	lout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	learns	learn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **learn** | present | a stupid lout |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a stupid lout

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t8:o3:1
# text = a stupid lout
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lout	lout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a silly goose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t8:o4:1
# text = a silly goose
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	goose	goose	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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