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title: no cap, who were the sus glowing eyes coming from? — Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap, who were the sus glowing eyes coming from? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1272 «Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast until fiery eyes creep into their skull» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 3 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast u…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no cap, who were the sus glowing eyes coming from?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cap, glowing eyes · **What happens:** glow, be, come · **To what, where:** glowing eyes

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1272 «Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast until fiery eyes creep into their skull» 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/1272-pg338-part9/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1272-pg338-part9:t3:1
# text = no cap, who were the sus glowing eyes coming from?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
10	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | no cap | the glowing eyes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | the glowing eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 -->
the low ground by the river where the cottonwoods grow thick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1272-pg338-part9:t3:o1:1
# text = the low ground by the river where the cottonwoods grow thick
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cottonwoods	cottonwood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | the low ground |  |  |  |  | by the river; thick *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the river bottom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1272-pg338-part9:t3:o2:1
# text = the river bottom
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the tall grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1272-pg338-part9:t3:o3:1
# text = the tall grass
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the far prairie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1272-pg338-part9:t3:o4:1
# text = the far prairie
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	prairie	prairie	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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