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title: Mate, what did the fox feed Ian for supper? — Fairy Book, How Ian Direach Got the Bl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did the fox feed Ian for supper? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1145 «Fairy Book, How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon, part 11: the fox tricks the wolf, and Ian gets a hard task» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon, part 11:…

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Mate, what did the fox feed Ian for supper?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** do, fee · **To what, where:** fox, Ian

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1145 «Fairy Book, How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon, part 11: the fox tricks the wolf, and Ian gets a hard task» 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/1145-pg3027-part11/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1145-pg3027-part11:t10:1
# text = Mate, what did the fox feed Ian for supper?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	feed	fee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate | the fox |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fee** | past | Mate | Ian |  |  |  | for supper | 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 {#o1}

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A whole roast chicken

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1145-pg3027-part11:t10:o1:1
# text = A whole roast chicken
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bread and honey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1145-pg3027-part11:t10:o2:1
# text = Bread and honey
1	Bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Fish from the stream

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1145-pg3027-part11:t10:o3:1
# text = Fish from the stream
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Cheek and hoof of a sheep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1145-pg3027-part11:t10:o4:1
# text = Cheek and hoof of a sheep
1	Cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	hoof	hoof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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