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title: Ha, what's Jonas calling Walter by the end, like a chicken? — Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ha, what's Jonas calling Walter by the end, like a chicken? Test 8 · ★ 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 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Wa…

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Ha, what's Jonas calling Walter by the end, like a chicken?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jonas · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** Jonas, Walter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t8:1
# text = Ha, what's Jonas calling Walter by the end, like a chicken?
1	Ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Jonas	Jona	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
6	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Jonas |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | Jonas *not said here* |  | Walter |  | by the end |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent walter=Recipient |

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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 chicken

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t8:o1:1
# text = A chicken
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chicken	chicken	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 thief

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t8:o2:1
# text = A thief
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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 coward

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t8:o3:1
# text = A coward
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coward	coward	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 traitor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t8:o4:1
# text = A traitor
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	traitor	traitor	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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