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title: Innit, who was the creepy geezer in black at the hall? — Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Innit, who was the creepy geezer in black at the hall? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 955 «Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes his dolls alive and learns to be content» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes…

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Innit, who was the creepy geezer in black at the hall?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Innit · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** creepy geezer

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 955 «Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes his dolls alive and learns to be content» 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/955-pg27200-part166/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:t2:1
# text = Innit, who was the creepy geezer in black at the hall?
1	Innit	Innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	creepy	creepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	geezer	geezer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Innit | the creepy geezer |  |  |  |  | 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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A lecturer from the Polytechnic Institution

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:t2:o1:1
# text = A lecturer from the Polytechnic Institution
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lecturer	lecturer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Polytechnic	Polytechnic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Institution	institution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A bouncer from a club in Slagelse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:t2:o2:1
# text = A bouncer from a club in Slagelse
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bouncer	bouncer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Slagelse	Slagelse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A copper checking the tickets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:t2:o3:1
# text = A copper checking the tickets
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	checking	check	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tickets	ticket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | gerund | a copper *not said here* | the tickets |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ticket=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A mate of the puppet-man's mum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:t2:o4:1
# text = A mate of the puppet-man's mum
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	puppet	puppet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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