--- title: Was Jane chuffed about the moth? — The Magic City, The Slide to the North… · tree and pragmatics description: Was Jane chuffed about the moth? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 644 «The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: George and Jane race down a great ice slide and meet a sportsman, a collector and a white grouse» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/644-pg23661-part12/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [The Magic City, The Slide to the North…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/644-pg23661-part12/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: Geor… Was Jane chuffed about the moth? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, chuff · **To what, where:** Jane This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 644 «The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: George and Jane race down a great ice slide and meet a sportsman, a collector and a white grouse» 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/644-pg23661-part12/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:644-pg23661-part12:t4:1 # text = Was Jane chuffed about the moth? 1 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 cop _ _ 2 Jane Jane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 chuffed chuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 moth moth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | Jane | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **chuff** | participle · passive | | Jane | | | | about the moth | tree rules | 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} Yeah, she let it out, proper brave, and it flew off happy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:644-pg23661-part12:t4:o1:1 # text = Yeah, she let it out, proper brave, and it flew off happy 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 off off ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let out** | past | she | it | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **fly off** | past | it | | | | | happy *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Yeah, she let it out, proper brave ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:644-pg23661-part12:t4:o2:1 # text = Yeah, she let it out, proper brave 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let out** | past | she | it | | | | brave *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Yeah, she let it go, dead brave ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:644-pg23661-part12:t4:o3:1 # text = Yeah, she let it go, dead brave 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | past | she | it | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | | | | | | brave *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Yeah, she was dead chuffed, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:644-pg23661-part12:t4:o4:1 # text = Yeah, she was dead chuffed, mate 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 5 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 chuffed chuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 vocative _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chuff** | past · passive | | she | | | | mate *vocative* | tree rules | **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. 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