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title: Bare cheeky, what did the creature refuse to get? — Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bare cheeky, what did the creature refuse to get? Test 7 · ★ 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 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins h…

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Bare cheeky, what did the creature refuse to get?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** creature · **What happens:** refuse, not get

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t7:1
# text = Bare cheeky, what did the creature refuse to get?
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past · do-support | the creature |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **get** | to-infinitive | the creature *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t7:o1:1
# text = gold
1	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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ale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t7:o2:1
# text = ale
1	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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thanks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t7:o3:1
# text = thanks
1	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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any payment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t7:o4:1
# text = any payment
1	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	payment	payment	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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