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title: Molly sulked about her presents, then played the jigsaw. It was cann… — Boasting cousins and made-up holidays · tree and pragmatics
description: Molly sulked about her presents, then played the jigsaw. It was canny. How was it? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 435 «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Boasting cousins and made-up holidays

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Molly sulked about her presents, then played the jigsaw. It was canny. How was it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Molly, jigsaw · **What happens:** sulk, play, be · **To what, where:** jigsaw

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 435 «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» of the everyday 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/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Molly sulked about her presents, then played the jigsaw.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays:t10:1
# text = Molly sulked about her presents, then played the jigsaw.
1	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sulked	sulk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	jigsaw	jigsaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sulk** | past | Molly |  |  |  |  | about Molly's presents | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **play** | past | Molly *not said here* | the jigsaw |  |  | then |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jigsaw=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* It was canny.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays:t10:2
# text = It was canny.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	canny	canny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | jigsaw |  |  |  |  | canny *property* | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* How was it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays:t10:3
# text = How was it?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | jigsaw |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Too hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays:t10:o1:1
# text = Too hard
1	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Boring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays:t10:o2:1
# text = Boring
1	Boring	boring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Nice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays:t10:o3:1
# text = Nice
1	Nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Scary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays:t10:o4:1
# text = Scary
1	Scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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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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