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title: oi, so this pedlar bloke, where's he from, innit? — English Fairy Tales, The Pedlar of Swa… · tree and pragmatics
description: oi, so this pedlar bloke, where's he from, innit? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 249 «English Fairy Tales, The Pedlar of Swaffham: a poor pedlar dreams of London Bridge and finds a treasure at home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Pedlar of Swaffham: a poor pedlar…

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oi, so this pedlar bloke, where's he from, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he, oi · **What happens:** be, innit

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 249 «English Fairy Tales, The Pedlar of Swaffham: a poor pedlar dreams of London Bridge and finds a treasure at home» 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/249-pg14241-part16/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:249-pg14241-part16:t1:1
# text = oi, so this pedlar bloke, where's he from, innit?
1	oi	oi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | he |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive | oi |  |  |  |  |  | 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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London

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:249-pg14241-part16:t1:o1:1
# text = London
1	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Swaffham, in Norfolk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:249-pg14241-part16:t1:o2:1
# text = Swaffham, in Norfolk
1	Swaffham	Swaffham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Norfolk	Norfolk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Norwich

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:249-pg14241-part16:t1:o3:1
# text = Norwich
1	Norwich	Norwich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Thetford, in Suffolk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:249-pg14241-part16:t1:o4:1
# text = Thetford, in Suffolk
1	Thetford	Thetford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Suffolk	Suffolk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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