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title: Dude, where'd Tom say he'd been, like? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, where'd Tom say he'd been, like? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a w…

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Dude, where'd Tom say he'd been, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Tom · **What happens:** say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t8:1
# text = Dude, where'd Tom say he'd been, like?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent like=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 {#o1}

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A hay bin and a sack

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t8:o1:1
# text = A hay bin and a sack
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Mouse-hole and snail-shell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t8:o2:1
# text = Mouse-hole and snail-shell
1	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A wolf and a cow's gut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t8:o3:1
# text = A wolf and a cow's gut
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A mouse-hole, snail-shell and a wolf's belly, lol

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t8:o4:1
# text = A mouse-hole, snail-shell and a wolf's belly, lol
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
```

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

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