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title: Gutted, did Tommy ever go round the corner again? — English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tom… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gutted, did Tommy ever go round the corner again? Test 11 · ★ 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 option; Mova's cho
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# Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca…

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Gutted, did Tommy ever go round the corner again?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** gut, do, go · **To what, where:** Tommy, corner

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This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t11:1
# text = Gutted, did Tommy ever go round the corner again?
1	Gutted	gut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	round	round	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | Tommy |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tommy=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go** | present |  |  |  | the corner | ever; again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round corner=Initial\_Location |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Not till he was grown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t11:o1:1
# text = Not till he was grown
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
2	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	grown	grow	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 | **not** **grow** | past · passive |  | he |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Not until he was a grown man himself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t11:o2:1
# text = Not until he was a grown man himself
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
2	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | he | a grown man |  |  |  | man *nmod* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Not till he had grown up and left home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t11:o3:1
# text = Not till he had grown up and left home
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
2	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **grow up** | past · perfect | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | participle | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only once after that

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t11:o4:1
# text = Only once after that
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	0	root	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	_
```

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

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