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title: Wicked, whose babby did Tom reckon was crying? — Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wicked, whose babby did Tom reckon was crying? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 239 «Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins his work and he gets the sack» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Test 4 · ★ · Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins h…

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Wicked, whose babby did Tom reckon was crying?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** babby, Wicked · **What happens:** reckon, cry

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 239 «Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins his work and he gets the sack» 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/239-pg14241-part6/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t4:1
# text = Wicked, whose babby did Tom reckon was crying?
1	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	babby	babby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	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 | **reckon** | past · do-support | babby |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past · progressive | Wicked |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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 {#o1}

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Mary Cooper's infant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t4:o1:1
# text = Mary Cooper's infant
1	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Cooper	Cooper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	infant	infant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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Sally Bratton's child

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t4:o2:1
# text = Sally Bratton's child
1	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Bratton	Bratton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	child	child	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 neighbour's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t4:o3:1
# text = a neighbour's
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Betsy Dun's bairn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t4:o4:1
# text = Betsy Dun's bairn
1	Betsy	Betsy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Dun	Dun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	bairn	bairn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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