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title: Wicked, but why didn't the hounds bark on the chase? — Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wicked, but why didn't the hounds bark on the chase? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1048 «Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, part 16: the pet fawn is spared, and Saeve comes to Fionn's door at night» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, part 16: the pet fawn…

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Wicked, but why didn't the hounds bark on the chase?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hounds · **What happens:** not bark · **To what, where:** chase

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1048 «Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, part 16: the pet fawn is spared, and Saeve comes to Fionn's door at night» 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/1048-pg2892-part16/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1048-pg2892-part16:t2:1
# text = Wicked, but why didn't the hounds bark on the chase?
1	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	bark	bark	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	chase	chase	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 | **not** **bark** | past · do-support | the hounds |  |  | the chase |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «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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They kept quite still

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1048-pg2892-part16:t2:o1:1
# text = They kept quite still
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | They |  |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They kept totally silent the whole way through

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1048-pg2892-part16:t2:o2:1
# text = They kept totally silent the whole way through
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	through	through	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | They | the whole way |  |  |  | silent, through *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

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They kept totally silent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1048-pg2892-part16:t2:o3:1
# text = They kept totally silent
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | They |  |  |  |  | silent, totally *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They yapped at the deer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1048-pg2892-part16:t2:o4:1
# text = They yapped at the deer
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	yapped	yap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yap** | past | They |  |  |  |  | at the deer | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at deer=Stimulus |

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