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title: Wee Jamie, what did the posh gents bring? — English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-C… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wee Jamie, what did the posh gents bring? Test 8 · ★ 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 was w
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# Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills t…

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Wee Jamie, what did the posh gents bring?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Wee Jamie · **What happens:** bring

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:t8:1
# text = Wee Jamie, what did the posh gents bring?
1	Wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Jamie	Jamie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	gents	gent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **bring** | past · do-support | Wee Jamie |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
wagonloads o' tongues fae every village

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:t8:o1:1
# text = wagonloads o' tongues fae every village
1	wagonloads	wagonload	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	fae	fae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
tongues cut fae a dozen lizards and snakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:t8:o2:1
# text = tongues cut fae a dozen lizards and snakes
1	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fae	fae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	lizards	lizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | present | tongues | fae |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset fae=Beneficiary lizard=Product |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
tongues that werenae dragons'

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:t8:o3:1
# text = tongues that werenae dragons'
1	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	werenae	werenae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
4	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
pickled tongues fae the market

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:t8:o4:1
# text = pickled tongues fae the market
1	pickled	pickle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fae	fae	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pickle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fae** | past | pickled tongues | the market |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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