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title: Dude, what did the youth cut open to stop the birds? — Norse Tales, East o' the Sun and West… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, what did the youth cut open to stop the birds? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1561 «Norse Tales, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, part 58: Dapplegrim climbs the cliff and rescues the Princess, then the King sets new tasks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and p
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# Test 8 · ★ · Norse Tales, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, part 58…

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Dude, what did the youth cut open to stop the birds?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude, youth · **What happens:** do, cut, stop · **To what, where:** birds

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1561 «Norse Tales, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, part 58: Dapplegrim climbs the cliff and rescues the Princess, then the King sets new tasks» 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/1561-pg540-part58/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1561-pg540-part58:t8:1
# text = Dude, what did the youth cut open to stop the birds?
1	Dude	dude	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	youth	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Dude |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cut** | present | the youth |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **stop** | to-infinitive | the youth *not said here* | the birds |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bird=Eventuality |

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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 wool bags

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1561-pg540-part58:t8:o1:1
# text = the wool bags
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the sacks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1561-pg540-part58:t8:o2:1
# text = the sacks
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sacks	sack	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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the grain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1561-pg540-part58:t8:o3:1
# text = the grain
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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the corn sacks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1561-pg540-part58:t8:o4:1
# text = the corn sacks
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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