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title: where even did the parents drop them, was it near the town or what? — Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: where even did the parents drop them, was it near the town or what? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1088 «Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds eat the bread, a storm in the 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 4 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds…

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where even did the parents drop them, was it near the town or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** parents · **What happens:** do, drop, be · **To what, where:** town, them, it

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1088 «Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds eat the bread, a storm in the 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/1088-pg29021-part13/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t4:1
# text = where even did the parents drop them, was it near the town or what?
1	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	parataxis	_	_
11	near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  | the town |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drop** | present | the parents | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | it |  |  |  |  | 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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the thickest, darkest part of the forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t4:o1:1
# text = the thickest, darkest part of the forest
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	thickest	thick	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	darkest	dark	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the middle of the big dark wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t4:o2:1
# text = the middle of the big dark wood
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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way deep in the creepy woods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t4:o3:1
# text = way deep in the creepy woods
1	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	creepy	creepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
near the town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t4:o4:1
# text = near the town
1	near	near	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	town	town	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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