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title: Like, what's the leg Tommy pokes out really? — English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tom… · tree and pragmatics
description: Like, what's the leg Tommy pokes out really? Test 3 · ★ 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 choice wa
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# Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca…

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Like, what's the leg Tommy pokes out really?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** leg · **What happens:** be, poke out

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t3:1
# text = Like, what's the leg Tommy pokes out really?
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pokes	poke	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	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 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **poke out** | present | the leg |  |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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Chair leg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t3:o1:1
# text = Chair leg
1	Chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A wooden leg of the sofa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t3:o2:1
# text = A wooden leg of the sofa
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t3:o3:1
# text = Table
1	Table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Sofa leg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t3:o4:1
# text = Sofa leg
1	Sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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