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title: Ok, what did he yell to scare off the guys outside? — Grimm, The Brave Little Tailor, the ta… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ok, what did he yell to scare off the guys outside? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 742 «Grimm, The Brave Little Tailor, the tailor fools giants, a unicorn and a boar, and frightens off his foes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Grimm, The Brave Little Tailor, the tailor fools giants, a…

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Ok, what did he yell to scare off the guys outside?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** yell, scare off · **To what, where:** guys

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 742 «Grimm, The Brave Little Tailor, the tailor fools giants, a unicorn and a boar, and frightens off his foes» 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/742-pg2591-part18/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:742-pg2591-part18:t10:1
# text = Ok, what did he yell to scare off the guys outside?
1	Ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	yell	yell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	scare	scare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	guys	guy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yell** *speech: express* | past · do-support | he |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **scare off** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* | the guys |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus guy=Experiencer |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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"Be gone"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:742-pg2591-part18:t10:o1:1
# text = "Be gone"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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"Stop now"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:742-pg2591-part18:t10:o2:1
# text = "Stop now"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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

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"I smote seven at one blow"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:742-pg2591-part18:t10:o3:1
# text = "I smote seven at one blow"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** *in a quote* | past | I | seven |  | one blow |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus seven=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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"I struck nine with one swing"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:742-pg2591-part18:t10:o4:1
# text = "I struck nine with one swing"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** *in a quote* | past | I | nine |  |  |  | with one swing | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nine=Patient with swing=Instrument |

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