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title: Wait, where'd Antoine climb to scoff the plums? — Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, where'd Antoine climb to scoff the plums? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1295 «Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the farmers and sends them to their deaths in the river, and a new tale, The Brown Bear of Norway, begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency t
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# Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the far…

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Wait, where'd Antoine climb to scoff the plums?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, Antoine · **What happens:** wait, climb, scoff · **To what, where:** plums

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1295 «Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the farmers and sends them to their deaths in the river, and a new tale, The Brown Bear of Norway, begins» 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/1295-pg3454-part20/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1295-pg3454-part20:t2:1
# text = Wait, where'd Antoine climb to scoff the plums?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	Antoine	Antoine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	scoff	scoff	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	plums	plum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **climb** | infinitive | Antoine |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **scoff** | to-infinitive | Antoine *not said here* | the plums |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plum=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 {#o1}

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under the hedge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1295-pg3454-part20:t2:o1:1
# text = under the hedge
1	under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hedge	hedge	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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in a barn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1295-pg3454-part20:t2:o2:1
# text = in a barn
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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up a plum tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1295-pg3454-part20:t2:o3:1
# text = up a plum tree
1	up	up	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	plum	plum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tree	tree	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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up a tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1295-pg3454-part20:t2:o4:1
# text = up a tree
1	up	up	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tree	tree	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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