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title: Did Tom just nick the cart and fight with it? — English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Tom just nick the cart and fight with it? Test 8 · ★ 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 each
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# Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the footba…

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Did Tom just nick the cart and fight with it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Tom · **What happens:** nick, fight · **To what, where:** cart

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:242-pg14241-part9:t8:1
# text = Did Tom just nick the cart and fight with it?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	nick	nick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nick** | past · do-support | Tom | the cart |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Patient |
| 2 | **fight** | infinitive | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with cart | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with it=Co-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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he unhitched the horse and flipped the whole cart over as a shield

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:242-pg14241-part9:t8:o1:1
# text = Yeah, he unhitched the horse and flipped the whole cart over as a shield
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	unhitched	unhitch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	flipped	flip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unhitch** | past | he | the horse |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 2 | **flip** | past | he *not said here* | the whole cart |  |  |  | as a shield; over *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he flipped it upside down for a shield and then used the wheel as a weapon

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:242-pg14241-part9:t8:o2:1
# text = Yeah, he flipped it upside down for a shield and then used the wheel as a weapon
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flipped	flip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	upside	upside	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flip** | past | he | it |  |  |  | for a shield; down *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | past | he *not said here* | the wheel |  |  | then | as a weapon | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent wheel=Duration as weapon=Attribute |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he flipped it upside down for a shield

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:242-pg14241-part9:t8:o3:1
# text = Yeah, he flipped it upside down for a shield
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flipped	flip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	upside	upside	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flip** | past | he | it |  |  |  | for a shield; down *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he tipped it over to block the blows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:242-pg14241-part9:t8:o4:1
# text = Yeah, he tipped it over to block the blows
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tipped	tip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	block	block	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tip over** | past | he | it |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **block** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* | the blows |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer blow=Theme |

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