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title: What'd Tom tell the wolf about, like? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallo… · tree and pragmatics
description: What'd Tom tell the wolf about, like? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 749 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a wolf, Tom talks his way out and goes home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a w…

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What'd Tom tell the wolf about, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Tom · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** wolf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 749 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a wolf, Tom talks his way out and goes home» 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/749-pg2591-part25/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t4:1
# text = What'd Tom tell the wolf about, like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | would | Tom | the wolf |  |  |  | about *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient wolf=Topic |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A house with loads of grub

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t4:o1:1
# text = A house with loads of grub
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	grub	grub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A house full of good eats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t4:o2:1
# text = A house full of good eats
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
6	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | a house |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Lots of food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t4:o3:1
# text = Lots of food
1	Lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A barn with tons of food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t4:o4:1
# text = A barn with tons of food
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	tons	ton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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