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title: why'd the hens just walk off like that — Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad cli… · tree and pragmatics
description: why'd the hens just walk off like that Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1004 «Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad climbs out of a well and goes hunting for a better world» 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 w
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# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad climbs out of a well an…

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why'd the hens just walk off like that

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hens · **What happens:** walk off

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1004 «Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad climbs out of a well and goes hunting for a better world» 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/1004-pg27200-part215/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1004-pg27200-part215:t6:1
# text = why'd the hens just walk off like that
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk off** | present | the hens |  |  |  |  | like that | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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Cuz the toad had friends around

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1004-pg27200-part215:t6:o1:1
# text = Cuz the toad had friends around
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	around	around	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have around** | past | Cuz | friends |  |  |  | around *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cuz the toad looked like she had allies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1004-pg27200-part215:t6:o2:1
# text = Cuz the toad looked like she had allies
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	allies	ally	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Cuz |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | Cuz | allies |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ally=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cuz the toad looked like she had a whole bunch of allies behind her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1004-pg27200-part215:t6:o3:1
# text = Cuz the toad looked like she had a whole bunch of allies behind her
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	allies	ally	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Cuz |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | Cuz | a whole bunch of allies |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bunch=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cuz the toad looked like she had allies coming, so they just walked off

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1004-pg27200-part215:t6:o4:1
# text = Cuz the toad looked like she had allies coming, so they just walked off
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	allies	ally	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Cuz |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | toad | allies |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ally=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | allies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **walk off** | past | allies *= ally* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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