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title: Mate, why's Tommy going on about pudding, innit? — English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tom… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, why's Tommy going on about pudding, innit? Test 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 option; Mova's choic
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# Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca…

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Mate, why's Tommy going on about pudding, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Tommy · **What happens:** go on, innit

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This is test 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. 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t2:1
# text = Mate, why's Tommy going on about pudding, innit?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | gerund | Tommy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about pudding | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about pudding=Location |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive | Tommy |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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To make Mrs Miacca forget about him entirely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t2:o1:1
# text = To make Mrs Miacca forget about him entirely
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
3	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	Miacca	Miacca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	forget	forget	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | Mrs |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mrs=Product |
| 2 | **forget** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about him *= he*; entirely *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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To get off the hook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t2:o2:1
# text = To get off the hook
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get off** | to-infinitive |  | the hook |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hook=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To buy some time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t2:o3:1
# text = To buy some time
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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To save himself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t2:o4:1
# text = To save himself
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | to-infinitive |  | himself *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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