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title: So what's Walter sticking in his cap to look hard? — Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted… · tree and pragmatics
description: So what's Walter sticking in his cap to look hard? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1287 «Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Walter sets off alone into the wood with his toys» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 5 · ★ · Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Wa…

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So what's Walter sticking in his cap to look hard?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Walter · **What happens:** stick, look · **To what, where:** cap

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1287 «Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Walter sets off alone into the wood with his toys» 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/1287-pg3454-part12/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t5:1
# text = So what's Walter sticking in his cap to look hard?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick** | present · progressive | Walter |  |  | Walter's cap |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme in cap=Destination |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | Walter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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}

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A bright red rooster tail feather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t5:o1:1
# text = A bright red rooster tail feather
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	rooster	rooster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A red feather from the hen house door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t5:o2:1
# text = A red feather from the hen house door
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A red cock's feather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t5:o3:1
# text = A red cock's feather
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	feather	feather	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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A blue jay's plume

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t5:o4:1
# text = A blue jay's plume
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	jay	jay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	plume	plume	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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