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title: so what did the owl beat on in the ball? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what did the owl beat on in the ball? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1010 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magician's head, the swan, and the farewell» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magi…

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so what did the owl beat on in the ball?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** owl · **What happens:** do, beat on · **To what, where:** ball

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1010 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magician's head, the swan, and the farewell» 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/1010-pg27200-part221/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t13:1
# text = so what did the owl beat on in the ball?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **beat on** | present | the owl |  |  | the ball |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ball=Location |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the flute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t13:o1:1
# text = the flute
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the drum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t13:o2:1
# text = the drum
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drum	drum	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 -->
the big drum in the corner of the hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t13:o3:1
# text = the big drum in the corner of the hall
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the violin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t13:o4:1
# text = the violin
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	violin	violin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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