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title: Yo, was Jack's wife proper clever or what? — English Fairy Tales, Gobborn Seer: Jac… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, was Jack's wife proper clever or what? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 244 «English Fairy Tales, Gobborn Seer: Jack's clever wife sends him back to tell a tale, and the king's son is trapped in a chest» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Gobborn Seer: Jack's clever wife send…

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Yo, was Jack's wife proper clever or what?

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

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 244 «English Fairy Tales, Gobborn Seer: Jack's clever wife sends him back to tell a tale, and the king's son is trapped in a chest» 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/244-pg14241-part11/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:244-pg14241-part11:t1:1
# text = Yo, was Jack's wife proper clever or what?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Jack's wife |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Dead sus, like

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:244-pg14241-part11:t1:o1:1
# text = Dead sus, like
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Mint and wicked, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:244-pg14241-part11:t1:o2:1
# text = Mint and wicked, bruv
1	Mint	mint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bare boring, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:244-pg14241-part11:t1:o3:1
# text = Bare boring, mate
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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Proper clever, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:244-pg14241-part11:t1:o4:1
# text = Proper clever, innit
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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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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