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title: No cap, what shape did the brownie pop out as at first? — Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the br… · tree and pragmatics
description: No cap, what shape did the brownie pop out as at first? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1336 «Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the work and Barbaik agrees to marry Jegu» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 3 · ★ · Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the w…

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No cap, what shape did the brownie pop out as at first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cap, brownie · **What happens:** do, pop out

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1336 «Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the work and Barbaik agrees to marry Jegu» 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/1336-pg3454-part61/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t3:1
# text = No cap, what shape did the brownie pop out as at first?
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	brownie	brownie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	pop	pop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | no cap |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pop out** | present | the brownie |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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 bright green snake coiled in the reeds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t3:o1:1
# text = a bright green snake coiled in the reeds
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	coiled	coil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **coil** | participle |  | a bright green snake *not said here* |  | the reeds |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in reed=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a small brown hare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t3:o2:1
# text = a small brown hare
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hare	hare	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 little green frog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t3:o3:1
# text = a little green frog
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	frog	frog	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 {#o4}

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a grey heron bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t3:o4:1
# text = a grey heron bird
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	heron	heron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bird	bird	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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