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title: Fam, what did Graciosa find out about the feathers? — Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fam, what did Graciosa find out about the feathers? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1543 «Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa tricks the Queen with the thread, then faces a barrel of mixed-up feathers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa…

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Fam, what did Graciosa find out about the feathers?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Graciosa · **What happens:** find out · **To what, where:** Fam

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1543 «Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa tricks the Queen with the thread, then faces a barrel of mixed-up feathers» 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/1543-pg540-part40/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1543-pg540-part40:t12:1
# text = Fam, what did Graciosa find out about the feathers?
1	Fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find out** | past · do-support | Graciosa | Fam |  |  |  | about the feathers | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Impossible to tell apart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1543-pg540-part40:t12:o1:1
# text = Impossible to tell apart
1	Impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell apart** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn distinguish-23.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hard to tell apart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1543-pg540-part40:t12:o2:1
# text = Hard to tell apart
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell apart** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn distinguish-23.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Too alike to separate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1543-pg540-part40:t12:o3:1
# text = Too alike to separate
1	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	separate	separate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Very colourful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1543-pg540-part40:t12:o4:1
# text = Very colourful
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	colourful	colourful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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