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title: Mate, what did Dick give the grumpy cook? — Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did Dick give the grumpy cook? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 359 «Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the king's gold, and a boy waits on a burning ship» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 6 · ★ · Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the…

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Mate, what did Dick give the grumpy cook?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dick · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** Mate

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 359 «Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the king's gold, and a boy waits on a burning ship» 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/359-pg18442-part19/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:359-pg18442-part19:t6:1
# text = Mate, what did Dick give the grumpy cook?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Dick	Dick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · do-support | Dick | Mate |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient cook=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A present, even though she was grumpy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:359-pg18442-part19:t6:o1:1
# text = A present, even though she was grumpy
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a present |  |  |  |  | grumpy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A gift, though she was mean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:359-pg18442-part19:t6:o2:1
# text = A gift, though she was mean
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | mean *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A kind word

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:359-pg18442-part19:t6:o3:1
# text = A kind word
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	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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A bun, even though she was rude

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:359-pg18442-part19:t6:o4:1
# text = A bun, even though she was rude
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bun	bun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | rude *property* | 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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