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title: Why'd Jack's dad get salty with him? — English Fairy Tales, Gobborn Seer: Jac… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why'd Jack's dad get salty with him? Test 9 · ★ 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 and of e
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# Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Gobborn Seer: Jack's clever wife send…

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Why'd Jack's dad get salty with him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** get

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:244-pg14241-part11:t9:1
# text = Why'd Jack's dad get salty with him?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | Jack's dad |  |  |  |  | salty *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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Cos Jack ate his lunch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:244-pg14241-part11:t9:o1:1
# text = Cos Jack ate his lunch
1	Cos	Cos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | Cos | Cos's lunch |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cos Jack was well late

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:244-pg14241-part11:t9:o2:1
# text = Cos Jack was well late
1	Cos	Cos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Cos |  |  |  |  | late, well *property* | tree rules |

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

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Cos Jack wouldn't shorten the road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:244-pg14241-part11:t9:o3:1
# text = Cos Jack wouldn't shorten the road
1	Cos	Cos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	shorten	shorten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **shorten** | would | Cos | the road |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent road=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cos Jack broke his tools

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:244-pg14241-part11:t9:o4:1
# text = Cos Jack broke his tools
1	Cos	Cos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | Cos | Cos's tools |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tool=Patient |

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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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