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title: Mad, where did they decide to hide out? — Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mad, where did they decide to hide out? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1508 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy procession, a cursed scarf, a midnight escape by boat» 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 11 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy pro…

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Mad, where did they decide to hide out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** they · **What happens:** decide, hide out

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1508 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy procession, a cursed scarf, a midnight escape by boat» 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/1508-pg540-part5/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:t11:1
# text = Mad, where did they decide to hide out?
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past · do-support | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hide out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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the woods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:t11:o1:1
# text = the woods
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Squirrel Island

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:t11:o2:1
# text = Squirrel Island
1	Squirrel	Squirrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	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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Crystal Mountain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:t11:o3:1
# text = Crystal Mountain
1	Crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	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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a far off island beyond the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:t11:o4:1
# text = a far off island beyond the sea
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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