--- title: so the poor kid got his stuff nicked? — Andersen's Tales, The Metal Pig: the b… · tree and pragmatics description: so the poor kid got his stuff nicked? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 899 «Andersen's Tales, The Metal Pig: the boy sneaks out to the Metal Pig, Bellissima is taken by police, and the boy starts drawing» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/899-pg27200-part110/t2/) [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/) / [Andersen's Tales, The Metal Pig: the b…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/899-pg27200-part110/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Metal Pig: the boy sneaks out to the… so the poor kid got his stuff nicked? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** poor kid, stuff · **What happens:** get, nick · **To what, where:** stuff This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 899 «Andersen's Tales, The Metal Pig: the boy sneaks out to the Metal Pig, Bellissima is taken by police, and the boy starts drawing» 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/899-pg27200-part110/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:899-pg27200-part110:t2:1 # text = so the poor kid got his stuff nicked? 1 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 nicked nick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | the poor kid | kid's stuff | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **nick** | participle | kid's stuff *not said here* | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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 {#o1} nah, the police grabbed the dog off him ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:899-pg27200-part110:t2:o1:1 # text = nah, the police grabbed the dog off him 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 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 grabbed grab VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 off off ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grab** | past | the police | the dog | | | | off dog | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dog=Theme off he=Source | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} the cops grabbed Bellissima, not his stuff ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:899-pg27200-part110:t2:o2:1 # text = the cops grabbed Bellissima, not his stuff 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cops cop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grabbed grab VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Bellissima Bellissima PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grab** | past | the cops | Bellissima | | | | Bellissima's stuff *obl* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bellissima=Theme | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} nah, the cops took his dog away ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:899-pg27200-part110:t2:o3:1 # text = nah, the cops took his dog away 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 cops cop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take away** | past | the cops | his dog | | | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} the cops took the dog, not his money ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:899-pg27200-part110:t2:o4:1 # text = the cops took the dog, not his money 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cops cop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the cops | | the dog | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination | **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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