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title: Who nicked the magic ass off Jack at the inn? — English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Tabl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who nicked the magic ass off Jack at the inn? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1973 «English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Jack gets three magic gifts, loses two, and wins his sweetheart» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Ja…

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Who nicked the magic ass off Jack at the inn?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** nick · **To what, where:** magic ass, inn

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1973 «English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Jack gets three magic gifts, loses two, and wins his sweetheart» 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/1973-pg7439-part32/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1973-pg7439-part32:t3:1
# text = Who nicked the magic ass off Jack at the inn?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	nicked	nick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nick** | past |  | the magic ass |  | the inn |  | off Jack | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ass=Theme off jack=Source |

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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 traveller who fancied it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1973-pg7439-part32:t3:o1:1
# text = A traveller who fancied it
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** | past | a traveller | traveller |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The landlord, the publican, who swapped it for a plain one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1973-pg7439-part32:t3:o2:1
# text = The landlord, the publican, who swapped it for a plain one
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	publican	publican	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	swapped	swap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swap** | past | the landlord and the publican | publican |  |  |  | for a plain one | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for one=Co-Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The landlord's cousin, a dodgy bloke who had watched Jack all night long

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1973-pg7439-part32:t3:o3:1
# text = The landlord's cousin, a dodgy bloke who had watched Jack all night long
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past · perfect | a dodgy bloke | Jack |  |  | night | long *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The landlord, the publican

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1973-pg7439-part32:t3:o4:1
# text = The landlord, the publican
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	publican	publican	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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