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title: Tell me, what's the Miller always nicking from Hans's garden in summ… — The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tell me, what's the Miller always nicking from Hans's garden in summer? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 2036 «The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets the Miller in spring» 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 6 · ★ · The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets…

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Tell me, what's the Miller always nicking from Hans's garden in summer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** tell, be · **To what, where:** me, garden · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2036 «The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets the Miller in spring» 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/2036-pg902-part6/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t6:1
# text = Tell me, what's the Miller always nicking from Hans's garden in summer?
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Miller	Miller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	nicking	nick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	ccomp	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | Hans's garden | summer | always, nick *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Some sweet peas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t6:o1:1
# text = Some sweet peas
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A large nosegay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t6:o2:1
# text = A large nosegay
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nosegay	nosegay	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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A tall basket of the finest cabbages and beans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t6:o3:1
# text = A tall basket of the finest cabbages and beans
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A large nosegay of every flower in the garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t6:o4:1
# text = A large nosegay of every flower in the garden
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nosegay	nosegay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	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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