--- title: Bruv, how many muggers jumped him on the road? — English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift:… · tree and pragmatics description: Bruv, how many muggers jumped him on the road? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 242 «English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the football crowd, four robbers and a tinker, then kills a giant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/242-pg14241-part9/t2/) [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, Tom Hickathrift:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/242-pg14241-part9/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the footba… Bruv, how many muggers jumped him on the road? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many muggers · **What happens:** jump · **To what, where:** Bruv, road This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 242 «English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the football crowd, four robbers and a tinker, then kills a giant» 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/242-pg14241-part9/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:242-pg14241-part9:t2:1 # text = Bruv, how many muggers jumped him on the road? 1 Bruv Bruv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 muggers mugger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump** | past | many muggers | Bruv | | the road | | Bruv *vocative* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme on road=Trajectory | 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} Four of them, I think ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:242-pg14241-part9:t2:o1:1 # text = Four of them, I think 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Four of them, innit ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:242-pg14241-part9:t2:o2:1 # text = Four of them, innit 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 innit innit INTJ UH _ 1 discourse _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Loads, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:242-pg14241-part9:t2:o3:1 # text = Loads, mate 1 Loads load NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Two, innit ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:242-pg14241-part9:t2:o4:1 # text = Two, innit 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 innit innit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **innit** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | **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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