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title: Okay, where did the girl find the food? — Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ba… · tree and pragmatics
description: Okay, where did the girl find the food? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1211 «Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished His Task, part 12: Lung-Woman is scalded and the Bad One drowns» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 9 · ★ · Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Okay, where did the girl find the food?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** find · **To what, where:** food

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1211 «Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished His Task, part 12: Lung-Woman is scalded and the Bad One drowns» 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/1211-pg3282-part12/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1211-pg3282-part12:t9:1
# text = Okay, where did the girl find the food?
1	Okay	okay	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · do-support | the girl | the food |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
beside a hut built overnight by spirits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1211-pg3282-part12:t9:o1:1
# text = beside a hut built overnight by spirits
1	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | participle |  | a hut *not said here* |  |  |  | by spirits; overnight *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
near the sleeping old bear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1211-pg3282-part12:t9:o2:1
# text = near the sleeping old bear
1	near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bear	bear	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 -->
in a big new hut that appeared overnight at the edge of the village, full of food

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1211-pg3282-part12:t9:o3:1
# text = in a big new hut that appeared overnight at the edge of the village, full of food
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | a big new hut |  |  | the edge of the village |  | overnight *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at edge=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
in a hut that was not there before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1211-pg3282-part12:t9:o4:1
# text = in a hut that was not there before
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
8	before	before	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | that |  |  | a hut |  | before, there *property* | tree rules |

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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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