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title: Did Tom clock the sneaky look between them? — Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The P… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Tom clock the sneaky look between them? Test 6 · ★ 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 pragmatics of 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6…

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Did Tom clock the sneaky look between them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Tom clock

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t6:1
# text = Did Tom clock the sneaky look between them?
1	Did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | Tom clock |  |  |  |  | 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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the sneaky look

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t6:o1:1
# text = the sneaky look
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	look	look	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the meaningful glance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t6:o2:1
# text = the meaningful glance
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	meaningful	meaningful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a secret note

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t6:o3:1
# text = a secret note
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	note	note	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 knowing little smirk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t6:o4:1
# text = the knowing little smirk
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	smirk	smirk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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