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title: Where was the owl trapped, innit? — Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where was the owl trapped, innit? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1459 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming is freed, sent to win the Princess, and helped on the road by a carp, a raven and an owl» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Test 5 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming…

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Where was the owl trapped, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** owl · **What happens:** be, trap, innit · **To what, where:** owl

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1459 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming is freed, sent to win the Princess, and helped on the road by a carp, a raven and an owl» 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/1459-pg503-part46/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1459-pg503-part46:t5:1
# text = Where was the owl trapped, innit?
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	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the owl |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **trap** | participle |  | the owl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **innit** | infinitive | the owl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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In a net the bird-catchers set

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1459-pg503-part46:t5:o1:1
# text = In a net the bird-catchers set
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	catchers	catcher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | present | the bird catchers |  |  | a net |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in net=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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In a snare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1459-pg503-part46:t5:o2:1
# text = In a snare
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	snare	snare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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In a trap the farmers laid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1459-pg503-part46:t5:o3:1
# text = In a trap the farmers laid
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | the farmers |  |  | a trap |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in trap=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Under a net some hunters made

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1459-pg503-part46:t5:o4:1
# text = Under a net some hunters made
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle | some hunters | a net *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset net=Product |

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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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