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title: what did the sparrows want, sis? — Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the sparrows want, sis? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1150 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl falls down the well and is kind to a fence, an oven and a cow, then finds work on a farm» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 10 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl fal…

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what did the sparrows want, sis?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sparrows · **What happens:** do, want · **To what, where:** sis

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1150 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl falls down the well and is kind to a fence, an oven and a cow, then finds work on a farm» 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/1150-pg3027-part16/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1150-pg3027-part16:t10:1
# text = what did the sparrows want, sis?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sis	si	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | present | the sparrows | sis |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot si=Theme |

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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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seed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1150-pg3027-part16:t10:o1:1
# text = seed
1	seed	seed	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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some grain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1150-pg3027-part16:t10:o2:1
# text = some grain
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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some corn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1150-pg3027-part16:t10:o3:1
# text = some corn
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1150-pg3027-part16:t10:o4:1
# text = bread
1	bread	bread	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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