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title: Bruv, what did the theatre boss reckon about his plays? — Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what did the theatre boss reckon about his plays? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 282 «Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk dreams he is a lark, is caught by a sailor-boy and is sold to two schoolboys» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk…

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Bruv, what did the theatre boss reckon about his plays?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** theatre boss, boss · **What happens:** reckon, play

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 282 «Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk dreams he is a lark, is caught by a sailor-boy and is sold to two schoolboys» 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/282-pg1597-part9/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t2:1
# text = Bruv, what did the theatre boss reckon about his plays?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	plays	play	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past · do-support | the theatre boss |  |  |  |  | about boss's plays; Bruv *vocative* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute |
| 2 | **play** |  | boss |  |  |  |  |  | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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praised both of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t2:o1:1
# text = praised both of them
1	praised	praise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** | past |  | both |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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loved them both

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t2:o2:1
# text = loved them both
1	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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asked for rewrites of both

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t2:o3:1
# text = asked for rewrites of both
1	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	rewrites	rewrite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  | for rewrites of both | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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flatly refused both of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t2:o4:1
# text = flatly refused both of them
1	flatly	flatly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past |  | both |  |  |  | flatly *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme |

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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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