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title: Mate, what did the lad smack the beast with? — English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-C… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did the lad smack the beast with? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 261 «English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills the dragon and wins the princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice wa
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# Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills t…

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Mate, what did the lad smack the beast with?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lad · **What happens:** smack · **To what, where:** Mate

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 261 «English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills the dragon and wins the princess» 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/261-pg14241-part28/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:t2:1
# text = Mate, what did the lad smack the beast with?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	smack	smack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smack** | past · do-support | the lad | Mate |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent what=Patient beast=Result |

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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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a hammer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:t2:o1:1
# text = a hammer
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	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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a bladder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:t2:o2:1
# text = a bladder
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bladder	bladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a bladder full of gravel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:t2:o3:1
# text = a bladder full of gravel
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bladder	bladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gravel	gravel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a big stick from the hedge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:t2:o4:1
# text = a big stick from the hedge
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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