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title: Was Peter well chuffed when he found that nest, innit? — Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was Peter well chuffed when he found that nest, innit? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 687 «Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the magic root, steals the gold, and Lucia gets a suitor» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the ma…

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Was Peter well chuffed when he found that nest, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Peter, nest · **What happens:** be, chuff, find, innit · **To what, where:** Peter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 687 «Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the magic root, steals the gold, and Lucia gets a suitor» 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/687-pg2435-part27/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:687-pg2435-part27:t2:1
# text = Was Peter well chuffed when he found that nest, innit?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	chuffed	chuff	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Peter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chuff** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **innit** | infinitive | nest |  |  |  |  |  | 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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nah, not really

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:687-pg2435-part27:t2:o1:1
# text = nah, not really
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	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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nah, he was dead gutted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:687-pg2435-part27:t2:o2:1
# text = nah, he was dead gutted
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	gutted	gut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **gut** | participle | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

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yeah, he was buzzing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:687-pg2435-part27:t2:o3:1
# text = yeah, he was buzzing
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buzz** | past · progressive | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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nah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:687-pg2435-part27:t2:o4:1
# text = nah
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

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