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title: test: What's the Bull telling her to chop off, our kid? — Norse Tales, Kari Woodengown, part 46:… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: What's the Bull telling her to chop off, our kid? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1549 «Norse Tales, Kari Woodengown, part 46: the Bull's death, the cruel Prince, and Kari's glove and towel» 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 7 · ★ · Norse Tales, Kari Woodengown, part 46: the Bull's death, t…

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test: What's the Bull telling her to chop off, our kid?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** test, Bull · **What happens:** be, tell, chop off · **To what, where:** Bull, her · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1549 «Norse Tales, Kari Woodengown, part 46: the Bull's death, the cruel Prince, and Kari's glove and towel» 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/1549-pg540-part46/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1549-pg540-part46:t7:1
# text = test: What's the Bull telling her to chop off, our kid?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	chop	chop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | test and our kid | the Bull |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Bull *not said here* |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **chop off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Bull *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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horns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1549-pg540-part46:t7:o1:1
# text = horns
1	horns	horn	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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his head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1549-pg540-part46:t7:o2:1
# text = his head
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	head	head	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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his great big horned head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1549-pg540-part46:t7:o3:1
# text = his great big horned head
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	horned	horned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	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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tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1549-pg540-part46:t7:o4:1
# text = tail
1	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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