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title: Who's the one that gets smashed to bits on the road, innit? — Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Bi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who's the one that gets smashed to bits on the road, innit? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 371 «Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin hungry cat dresses up as a doctor» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 4 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin…

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Who's the one that gets smashed to bits on the road, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, smash, innit · **To what, where:** one, road

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 371 «Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin hungry cat dresses up as a doctor» 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/371-pg19994-part10/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:371-pg19994-part10:t4:1
# text = Who's the one that gets smashed to bits on the road, innit?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	gets	get	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	smashed	smash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **smash** | present · passive |  | the one |  | the road |  | to bits | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme to bit=Destination |
| 3 | **innit** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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The Earthen Pot that was too fragile to go

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:371-pg19994-part10:t4:o1:1
# text = The Earthen Pot that was too fragile to go
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Earthen	Earthen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fragile	fragile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Earthen Pot |  |  |  |  | fragile *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | the Earthen Pot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Earthen Pot, the fragile one, all smashed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:371-pg19994-part10:t4:o2:1
# text = The Earthen Pot, the fragile one, all smashed
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Earthen	Earthen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Pot	Pot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fragile	fragile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	smashed	smashed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
```

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

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

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The Earthen Pot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:371-pg19994-part10:t4:o3:1
# text = The Earthen Pot
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Earthen	Earthen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Pot	pot	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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The Brass Pot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:371-pg19994-part10:t4:o4:1
# text = The Brass Pot
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Brass	Brass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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