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title: be real, what does "stomached" mean? — Irish Fairy Tales, Jack the Fool, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: be real, what does "stomached" mean? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 2014 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack the Fool, part 33: Jack hires himself to the Gray Churl and turns every order against him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 11 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack the Fool, part 33: Jack hires hims…

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be real, what does "stomached" mean?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, stomach, mean · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2014 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack the Fool, part 33: Jack hires himself to the Gray Churl and turns every order against him» 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/2014-pg7885-part33/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2014-pg7885-part33:t11:1
# text = be real, what does "stomached" mean?
1	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	stomached	stomach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	mean	mean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stomach** *in a quote* | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Sulky and angry, saying nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2014-pg7885-part33:t11:o1:1
# text = Sulky and angry, saying nothing
1	Sulky	sulky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sulky and angry, saying nothing at all to anyone in the house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2014-pg7885-part33:t11:o2:1
# text = Sulky and angry, saying nothing at all to anyone in the house
1	Sulky	sulky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Sulky | nothing | anyone | all |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to anyone=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sulky and angry, shouting loudly at everyone who passed by the gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2014-pg7885-part33:t11:o3:1
# text = Sulky and angry, shouting loudly at everyone who passed by the gate
1	Sulky	sulky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | Sulky |  |  | everyone |  | loudly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pass** | past |  |  |  |  |  | by the gate | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by gate=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sulky and quiet, not sleeping

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2014-pg7885-part33:t11:o4:1
# text = Sulky and quiet, not sleeping
1	Sulky	sulky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sleep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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