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title: Did the little kid really play the lion's back legs for a whole guil… — Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the little kid really play the lion's back legs for a whole guilder? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 932 «Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare, and a legacy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Did the little kid really play the lion's back legs for a whole guilder?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, play · **To what, where:** little kid, back legs

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 932 «Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare, and a legacy» 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/932-pg27200-part143/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:932-pg27200-part143:t8:1
# text = Did the little kid really play the lion's back legs for a whole guilder?
1	Did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	guilder	guilder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the little kid |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Eventuality |
| 2 | **play** | present |  | the lion's back legs |  |  |  | for a whole guilder | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent leg=Theme for guilder=Eventuality |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, the back legs paid a full guilder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:932-pg27200-part143:t8:o1:1
# text = yeah, the back legs paid a full guilder
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	guilder	guilder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | the back legs | a full guilder |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guilder=Asset |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, a dime

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:932-pg27200-part143:t8:o2:1
# text = yeah, a dime
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dime	dime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, the front legs got it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:932-pg27200-part143:t8:o3:1
# text = nah, the front legs got it
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the front legs | it |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, the hind legs got a guilder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:932-pg27200-part143:t8:o4:1
# text = yeah, the hind legs got a guilder
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	guilder	guilder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the hind legs | a guilder |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guilder=Stimulus |

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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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