--- title: Was Mally smart or dumb, innit, from what you heard? — English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife:… · tree and pragmatics description: Was Mally smart or dumb, innit, from what you heard? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 236 «English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's chores, loses the groats to a robber, and the couple wins them back» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/236-pg14241-part3/t14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/236-pg14241-part3/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's c… Was Mally smart or dumb, innit, from what you heard? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, hear This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 236 «English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's chores, loses the groats to a robber, and the couple wins them back» 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/236-pg14241-part3/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:236-pg14241-part3:t14:1 # text = Was Mally smart or dumb, innit, from what you heard? 1 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 2 Mally Mally PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 dumb dumb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 innit innit INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 conj _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | | | | | | smart *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hear** | past | you | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | 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} dumb, she kept ruining stuff ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:236-pg14241-part3:t14:o1:1 # text = dumb, she kept ruining stuff 1 dumb dumb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 ruining ruin VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | she | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ruin** | gerund | she *not said here* | stuff | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} clever, but very unlucky ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:236-pg14241-part3:t14:o2:1 # text = clever, but very unlucky 1 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 but but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 unlucky unlucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} smart, really ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:236-pg14241-part3:t14:o3:1 # text = smart, really 1 smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 really really ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} smart, she tried her best ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:236-pg14241-part3:t14:o4:1 # text = smart, she tried her best 1 smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past | she | her best | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | **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. 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