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title: ok so Johnny-cake got eaten in one bite, was that a proper ending or… — English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok so Johnny-cake got eaten in one bite, was that a proper ending or nah? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1966 «English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is eaten, and the dove flies to the queen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 13 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is e…

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ok so Johnny-cake got eaten in one bite, was that a proper ending or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** eat, be · **To what, where:** Johnny cake, one bite, proper ending

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1966 «English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is eaten, and the dove flies to the queen» 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/1966-pg7439-part25/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t13:1
# text = ok so Johnny-cake got eaten in one bite, was that a proper ending or nah?
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · passive |  | Johnny cake |  | one bite |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a proper ending |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the fox snapped him up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t13:o1:1
# text = the fox snapped him up
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	snapped	snap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snap up** | past | the fox | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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he was eaten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t13:o2:1
# text = he was eaten
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · passive |  | he |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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he was let go free

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t13:o3:1
# text = he was let go free
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past · passive |  | he |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  | free *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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he escaped

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t13:o4:1
# text = he escaped
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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