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title: Dead sketchy, that fox. What did he want to nick? — Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead sketchy, that fox. What did he want to nick? Test 9 · ★ 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 question and of each option; Mova's choice wa
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# Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets…

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Dead sketchy, that fox. What did he want to nick?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fox · **What happens:** want, nick

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Dead sketchy, that fox.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:t9:1
# text = Dead sketchy, that fox.
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sketchy	sketchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* What did he want to nick?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:t9:2
# text = What did he want to nick?
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	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	nick	nick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past · do-support | fox |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **nick** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the hens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:t9:o1:1
# 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.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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eggs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:t9:o2:1
# text = eggs
1	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 hen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:t9:o3:1
# text = the hen
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hen	hen	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 bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:t9:o4:1
# text = the bread
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	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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