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title: Fr, what did the geese do to the priest? — Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fr, what did the geese do to the priest? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 4 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tr…

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Fr, what did the geese do to the priest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fr, geese · **What happens:** do

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are 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/1521-pg540-part18/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t4:1
# text = Fr, what did the geese do to the priest?
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Fr |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | the geese |  |  |  |  | to the priest | vn act-114-1 «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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bit him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t4:o1:1
# text = bit him
1	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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hissed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t4:o2:1
# text = hissed
1	hissed	hiss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hiss** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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pecked him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t4:o3:1
# text = pecked him
1	pecked	peck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peck** | past |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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chased him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t4:o4:1
# text = chased him
1	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | past |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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