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title: What got on everyone's nerves, like, proper bad? — Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The P… · tree and pragmatics
description: What got on everyone's nerves, like, proper bad? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 638 «Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6: the dragon's birthday plot is revealed and the Princess is offered as a present» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Test 2 · ★ · Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6…

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What got on everyone's nerves, like, proper bad?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** nerves

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 638 «Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6: the dragon's birthday plot is revealed and the Princess is offered as a present» 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/638-pg23661-part6/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t2:1
# text = What got on everyone's nerves, like, proper bad?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past |  |  |  | everyone's nerves |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on nerve=Source |

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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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the cracking tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t2:o1:1
# text = the cracking tail
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cracking	cracking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the dragon's endless questions at dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t2:o2:1
# text = the dragon's endless questions at dinner
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **question** |  | the dragon |  |  | dinner |  |  | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent at=place |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the wagging tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t2:o3:1
# text = the wagging tail
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wagging	wag	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wag** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the elephant's trumpeting every morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t2:o4:1
# text = the elephant's trumpeting every morning
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	trumpeting	trumpet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trumpet** | gerund |  |  |  |  | morning |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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