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title: Bet, what did the goose-girl call the geese? — Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bet, what did the goose-girl call the geese? Test 5 · ★ 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 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tr…

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Bet, what did the goose-girl call the geese?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bet · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** geese · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t5:1
# text = Bet, what did the goose-girl call the geese?
1	Bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · do-support | Bet | the geese |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme goose=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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wicked birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t5:o1:1
# text = wicked birds
1	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	birds	bird	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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little fiends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t5:o2:1
# text = little fiends
1	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fiends	fiend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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hissing little fiends and wicked pests

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t5:o3:1
# text = hissing little fiends and wicked pests
1	hissing	hiss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fiends	fiend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pests	pest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hiss** | gerund |  | little fiends and wicked pests |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiend=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the little fiends of Purgatory

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t5:o4:1
# text = the little fiends of Purgatory
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fiends	fiend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Purgatory	Purgatory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	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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