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title: no cap, who spotted the boy on the little island? — Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap, who spotted the boy on the little island? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1273 «Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater, part 10: the stolen boy is found by his parents, and a wood-child is adopted by a chieftain» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Test 3 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater, part 10: the stole…

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no cap, who spotted the boy on the little island?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cap · **What happens:** spot · **To what, where:** boy, little island

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1273 «Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater, part 10: the stolen boy is found by his parents, and a wood-child is adopted by a chieftain» 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/1273-pg338-part10/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1273-pg338-part10:t3:1
# text = no cap, who spotted the boy on the little island?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spotted	spot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spot** | past | no cap |  | the boy | the little island |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boy=Destination |

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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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A fisher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1273-pg338-part10:t3:o1:1
# text = A fisher
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fisher	fisher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A young warrior

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1273-pg338-part10:t3:o2:1
# text = A young warrior
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A traveling trader

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1273-pg338-part10:t3:o3:1
# text = A traveling trader
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	traveling	traveling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	trader	trader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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An Indian hunter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1273-pg338-part10:t3:o4:1
# text = An Indian hunter
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hunter	hunter	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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