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title: Dead funny, what's Mr Miacca sitting on? — English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tom… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead funny, what's Mr Miacca sitting on? Test 5 · ★ 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 was wr
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# Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca…

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Dead funny, what's Mr Miacca sitting on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mr · **What happens:** sit on

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t5:1
# text = Dead funny, what's Mr Miacca sitting on?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Miacca	Miacca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit on** | present · progressive | Mr |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=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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A bench

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t5:o1:1
# text = A bench
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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The sofa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t5:o2:1
# text = The sofa
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Stool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t5:o3:1
# text = Stool
1	Stool	stool	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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The chair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:t5:o4:1
# text = The chair
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chair	chair	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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