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title: Like, what did the devil have, claws and wings and what else? — Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robber… · tree and pragmatics
description: Like, what did the devil have, claws and wings and what else? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 2003 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall tale and the gold returned» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 3 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall t…

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Like, what did the devil have, claws and wings and what else?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** devil · **What happens:** do, have · **To what, where:** claws

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2003 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall tale and the gold returned» 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/2003-pg7885-part22/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2003-pg7885-part22:t3:1
# text = Like, what did the devil have, claws and wings and what else?
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	else	else	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | the devil | claws and wings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient |

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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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Teeth like long iron nails

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2003-pg7885-part22:t3:o1:1
# text = Teeth like long iron nails
1	Teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hooves like iron plates

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2003-pg7885-part22:t3:o2:1
# text = Hooves like iron plates
1	Hooves	hoove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Teeth like nails

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2003-pg7885-part22:t3:o3:1
# text = Teeth like nails
1	Teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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Teeth like sixpenny nails

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2003-pg7885-part22:t3:o4:1
# text = Teeth like sixpenny nails
1	Teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	sixpenny	sixpenny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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