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title: Bruv, what even is a pixy, innit? — English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what even is a pixy, innit? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 248 «English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow, a blinded giant, and a fox sneaks into the bears' castle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow…

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Bruv, what even is a pixy, innit?

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

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 248 «English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow, a blinded giant, and a fox sneaks into the bears' castle» 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/248-pg14241-part15/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:248-pg14241-part15:t1:1
# text = Bruv, what even is a pixy, innit?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pixy	pixy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Bruv |  |  |  |  | pixy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **innit** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | 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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Small fairies who steal milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:248-pg14241-part15:t1:o1:1
# text = Small fairies who steal milk
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	steal	steal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | present | Small fairies | milk |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location milk=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cow thieves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:248-pg14241-part15:t1:o2:1
# text = Cow thieves
1	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Little elves who herd the sheep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:248-pg14241-part15:t1:o3:1
# text = Little elves who herd the sheep
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	elves	elf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	herd	herd	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **herd** | present | Little elves | the sheep |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient |

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

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Tiny magic folk who nick cows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:248-pg14241-part15:t1:o4:1
# text = Tiny magic folk who nick cows
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	nick	nick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nick** | present | Tiny magic folk | cows |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=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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