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title: What came out of the basilisks' mouths and ears? — d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwa… · tree and pragmatics
description: What came out of the basilisks' mouths and ears? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1423 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wedding is spoiled and Bellissima is stolen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 9 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wed…

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What came out of the basilisks' mouths and ears?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** come out · **To what, where:** mouths

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1423 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wedding is spoiled and Bellissima is stolen» 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/1423-pg503-part10/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t9:1
# text = What came out of the basilisks' mouths and ears?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	basilisks	basilisk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past |  | the basilisks's mouths and ears |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mouth=Result |

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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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Fire and smoke, proper flaming, bare nasty, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t9:o1:1
# text = Fire and smoke, proper flaming, bare nasty, innit
1	Fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	flaming	flaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	innit	innit	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sparks, bare heat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t9:o2:1
# text = Sparks, bare heat
1	Sparks	spark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Steam, proper hot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t9:o3:1
# text = Steam, proper hot
1	Steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
```

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

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

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Fire, proper flaming

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t9:o4:1
# text = Fire, proper flaming
1	Fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	flaming	flaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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