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title: What object did Tommy Grimes ultimately place his leg against? — English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tom… · tree and pragmatics
description: What object did Tommy Grimes ultimately place his leg against? Exam question 2 of lesson 1967 «English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca with a sofa leg and runs home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca…

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What object did Tommy Grimes ultimately place his leg against?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Tommy Grimes

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1967 «English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca with a sofa leg and runs home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1967-pg7439-part26/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:e2:1
# text = What object did Tommy Grimes ultimately place his leg against?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Grimes	grime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	against	against	ADP	IN	_	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | object | Tommy Grimes  place |  |  |  |  | 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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A leg of the sofa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:e2:o1:1
# text = A leg of the sofa
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A leg of the table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:e2:o2:1
# text = A leg of the table
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The sofa's back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:e2:o3:1
# text = The sofa's back
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	back	back	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 leg of the old sofa by the fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:e2:o4:1
# text = A leg of the old sofa by the fire
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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