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title: Yo, who was the clown with the hump, innit? — Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcine… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, who was the clown with the hump, innit? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 905 «Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clown mourns Columbine» 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 was right.
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# Test 1 · ★ · Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clo…

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Yo, who was the clown with the hump, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, innit · **To what, where:** clown

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 905 «Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clown mourns Columbine» 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/905-pg27200-part116/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t1:1
# text = Yo, who was the clown with the hump, innit?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	clown	clown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the clown |  |  |  | with the hump | tree rules |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Pulcinella

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t1:o1:1
# text = Pulcinella
1	Pulcinella	Pulcinella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Scaramouche

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t1:o2:1
# text = Scaramouche
1	Scaramouche	scaramouche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the Turk who smoked the long pipe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t1:o3:1
# text = the Turk who smoked the long pipe
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Turk	Turk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	smoked	smoke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smoke** | past | the Turk | the long pipe |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the hunchbacked Doctor from Bologna

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t1:o4:1
# text = the hunchbacked Doctor from Bologna
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hunchbacked	hunchback	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	Doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Bologna	Bologna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunchback** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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