--- title: Where did the girls hide the ball for the night? — Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foo… · tree and pragmatics description: Where did the girls hide the ball for the night? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1247-pg3282-part48/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1247-pg3282-part48/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: t… Where did the girls hide the ball for the night? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** girls · **What happens:** be, hide · **To what, where:** ball This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» 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/1247-pg3282-part48/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t4:1 # text = Where did the girls hide the ball for the night? 1 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 5 advmod _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hide** | present | the girls | the ball | | | night | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient | 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} In a big cupboard under the stairs for the night ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t4:o1:1 # text = In a big cupboard under the stairs for the night 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 cupboard cupboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 under under ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} In the kitchen ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t4:o2:1 # text = In the kitchen 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} In a cupboard ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t4:o3:1 # text = In a cupboard 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cupboard cupboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} In the wooden cupboard beside the front door ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t4:o4:1 # text = In the wooden cupboard beside the front door 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 cupboard cupboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 beside beside ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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