--- title: Did his dad almost whack him or what? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallo… · tree and pragmatics description: Did his dad almost whack him or what? Test 7 · ★ 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/749-pg2591-part25/t7/) [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/) / [Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/749-pg2591-part25/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a w… Did his dad almost whack him or what? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, whack · **To what, where:** dad, him This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t7:1 # text = Did his dad almost whack him or what? 1 Did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 almost almost ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 whack whack VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | his dad | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **whack** | present | | him *= he* | | | | almost *property* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | 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} Nah, the dad whacked the wolf right on the head with a big stick ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t7:o1:1 # text = Nah, the dad whacked the wolf right on the head with a big stick 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 whacked whack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 right right ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **whack** | past | the dad | the wolf | | the head | | with a big stick | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient with stick=Instrument | ### Option 2 {#o2} Nah, the dad whacked the wolf with an axe and saved Tom ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t7:o2:1 # text = Nah, the dad whacked the wolf with an axe and saved Tom 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 whacked whack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **whack** | past | the dad | the wolf | | | | with a axe | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient with axe=Instrument | | 2 | **save** | past | the dad *not said here* | Tom | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Yup, he whacked the cow ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t7:o3:1 # text = Yup, he whacked the cow 1 Yup yup NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 whacked whack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **whack** | past | he | the cow | | | | Yup *vocative* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Nah, the dad whacked the wolf ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t7:o4:1 # text = Nah, the dad whacked the wolf 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 whacked whack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **whack** | past | the dad | the wolf | | | | | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient | **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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