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title: lol the fox is so sly, like how did he trick Johnny-cake into coming… — English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: lol the fox is so sly, like how did he trick Johnny-cake into coming close? Test 2 · ★ 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 questio
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# Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is e…

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lol the fox is so sly, like how did he trick Johnny-cake into coming close?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fox · **What happens:** be, trick, come · **To what, where:** Johnny cake

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t2:1
# text = lol the fox is so sly, like how did he trick Johnny-cake into coming close?
1	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sly	sly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	trick	trick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
18	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the fox |  |  |  |  | sly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **trick** | past · do-support | fox | Johnny cake |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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by pretending to be asleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t2:o1:1
# text = by pretending to be asleep
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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by pretending he could not hear the running boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t2:o2:1
# text = by pretending he could not hear the running boy
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	running	running	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | gerund | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **hear** | could | he | the running boy |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus |

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

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by pretending he could not hear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t2:o3:1
# text = by pretending he could not hear
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **hear** | could | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
by pretending he had not seen Johnny-cake at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t2:o4:1
# text = by pretending he had not seen Johnny-cake at all
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
7	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | he | Johnny cake |  | all |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cake=Stimulus |

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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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