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title: How did it laugh at her, the cheeky thing? — English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: How did it laugh at her, the cheeky thing? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 243 «English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's black pot turns from gold to silver to iron to stone, and then into a horse-sized kow» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's bl…

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How did it laugh at her, the cheeky thing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** it · **What happens:** laugh

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 243 «English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's black pot turns from gold to silver to iron to stone, and then into a horse-sized kow» 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/243-pg14241-part10/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:243-pg14241-part10:t9:1
# text = How did it laugh at her, the cheeky thing?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past · do-support | it |  |  |  |  | at her *= she* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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like a hen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:243-pg14241-part10:t9:o1:1
# text = like a hen
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hen	hen	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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like a sly grinning fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:243-pg14241-part10:t9:o2:1
# text = like a sly grinning fox
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	sly	sly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	grinning	grin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grin** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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rudely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:243-pg14241-part10:t9:o3:1
# text = rudely
1	rudely	rudely	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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like a naughty mocking boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:243-pg14241-part10:t9:o4:1
# text = like a naughty mocking boy
1	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	mocking	mocking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	boy	boy	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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