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title: Who nicked the miser's gold, innit? — Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a M… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who nicked the miser's gold, innit? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 373 «Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold is stolen, and a stranger gives strange advice» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…

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Who nicked the miser's gold, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** nick, innit · **To what, where:** gold

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 373 «Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold is stolen, and a stranger gives strange advice» 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/373-pg19994-part12/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t12:1
# text = Who nicked the miser's gold, innit?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	nicked	nick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	miser	miser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nick** | past |  | the miser's gold |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient |
| 2 | **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 {#o1}

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A mate who'd been nosey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t12:o1:1
# text = A mate who'd been nosey
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	nosey	nosey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past · perfect | a mate and nosey | nosey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A thief who'd been watchin' him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t12:o2:1
# text = A thief who'd been watchin' him
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	watchin	watchin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A bloke who'd been knockin' about

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t12:o3:1
# text = A bloke who'd been knockin' about
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux	_	_
6	knockin	knockin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knockin** | past · perfect · progressive | a bloke |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A thief

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t12:o4:1
# text = A thief
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thief	thief	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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