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title: Where was the ram's blood, all over the place? — Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wol… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where was the ram's blood, all over the place? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1288 «Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "wolf" that turns out to be his dog Caro» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 4 · ★ · Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "w…

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Where was the ram's blood, all over the place?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** blood · **What happens:** be

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1288 «Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "wolf" that turns out to be his dog Caro» 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/1288-pg3454-part13/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:t4:1
# text = Where was the ram's blood, all over the place?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the ram's blood and the place |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |

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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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Spattered across the old stone walls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:t4:o1:1
# text = Spattered across the old stone walls
1	Spattered	spatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	across	across	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spatter** | participle |  |  |  | the old stone walls |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across wall=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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On the stones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:t4:o2:1
# text = On the stones
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Scattered on the path beside the gray kiln

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:t4:o3:1
# text = Scattered on the path beside the gray kiln
1	Scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	kiln	kiln	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scatter** | participle |  |  |  | the path |  | beside the gray kiln | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on path=Destination |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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On the grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:t4:o4:1
# text = On the grass
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	grass	grass	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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