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title: Did the cricket make it? — Fairy Tales, The Turnip Princess, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the cricket make it? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1251 «Fairy Tales, The Turnip Princess, part 52: the maidens wither, and the gnome's fresh turnips go missing» 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 was rig
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# Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Turnip Princess, part 52: the maidens wit…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Did the cricket make it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cricket · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** it

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1251 «Fairy Tales, The Turnip Princess, part 52: the maidens wither, and the gnome's fresh turnips go missing» 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/1251-pg3282-part52/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1251-pg3282-part52:t6:1
# text = Did the cricket make it?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cricket	cricket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · do-support | the cricket | it |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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 {#o1}

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Nah, a stork gobbled it up near the river and the cricket fell in, mate

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1251-pg3282-part52:t6:o1:1
# text = Nah, a stork gobbled it up near the river and the cricket fell in, mate
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gobbled	gobble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cricket	cricket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gobble up** | past | a stork | it |  | the river |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **fall in** | past | the cricket |  |  |  |  | mate *vocative* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it reached him fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1251-pg3282-part52:t6:o2:1
# text = Yeah, it reached him fine
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | it | him *= he* |  |  |  | fine *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, a stork gobbled it up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1251-pg3282-part52:t6:o3:1
# text = Nah, a stork gobbled it up
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gobbled	gobble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gobble up** | past | a stork | it |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, a swallow nabbed it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1251-pg3282-part52:t6:o4:1
# text = Nah, a swallow nabbed it
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	nabbed	nab	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nab** | participle | a swallow *not said here* | swallow |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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