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title: Cousin fox sounds like a bit of a grass, whispering about that man.… — Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cousin fox sounds like a bit of a grass, whispering about that man. What did he say he'd take? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1236 «Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets out to find a golden hen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets…

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Cousin fox sounds like a bit of a grass, whispering about that man. What did he say he'd take?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Cousin fox, fox · **What happens:** sound, whisper, say, take · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1236 «Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets out to find a golden hen» 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/1236-pg3282-part37/#t13).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Cousin fox sounds like a bit of a grass, whispering about that man.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:t13:1
# text = Cousin fox sounds like a bit of a grass, whispering about that man.
1	Cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	whispering	whisper	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present | Cousin fox |  |  |  |  | like a bit of a grass | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund | Cousin fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about that man | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about man=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What did he say he'd take?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:t13:2
# text = What did he say he'd take?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | fox |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | would | fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the bow and arrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:t13:o1:1
# text = the bow and arrow
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the knapsack

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:t13:o2:1
# text = the knapsack
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the bag

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:t13:o3:1
# text = the bag
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bag	bag	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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the hens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:t13:o4:1
# text = the hens
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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