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title: Mate, did the imp tweak Tom's leg or his bum? — More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brow… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, did the imp tweak Tom's leg or his bum? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 240 «More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp out and is cursed» 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 right.
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# Test 1 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp…

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Mate, did the imp tweak Tom's leg or his bum?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** imp tweak

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 240 «More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp out and is cursed» 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/240-pg14241-part7/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:t1:1
# text = Mate, did the imp tweak Tom's leg or his bum?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	imp	imp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tweak	tweak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bum	bum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate | the imp tweak |  |  |  |  | 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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tweak his leg under the table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:t1:o1:1
# text = tweak his leg under the table
1	tweak	tweak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tweak** | imperative | you *not said here* | his leg |  | the table |  |  | vn touch-20 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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tweak his nose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:t1:o2:1
# text = tweak his nose
1	tweak	tweak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tweak** | imperative | you *not said here* | his nose |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Experiencer |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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tweak his leg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:t1:o3:1
# text = tweak his leg
1	tweak	tweak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tweak** | imperative | you *not said here* | his leg |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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tweak his leg while he was sleeping

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:t1:o4:1
# text = tweak his leg while he was sleeping
1	tweak	tweak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tweak** | imperative | you *not said here* | his leg |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sleep** | past · progressive | he |  |  |  |  |  | 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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