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title: What did the boys in the countryside wear to the wedding? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three b… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the boys in the countryside wear to the wedding? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 1565 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pin pulled from a bird» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 14 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pi…

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What did the boys in the countryside wear to the wedding?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** boys, countryside wear

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1565 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pin pulled from a bird» 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/1565-pg540-part62/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:t14:1
# text = What did the boys in the countryside wear to the wedding?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	countryside	countryside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wear	wear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the boys |  | the countryside wear |  | to the wedding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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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paper hats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:t14:o1:1
# text = paper hats
1	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	hats	hat	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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gilt paper epaulets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:t14:o2:1
# text = gilt paper epaulets
1	gilt	gilt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	epaulets	epaulet	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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bows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:t14:o3:1
# text = bows
1	bows	bows	PUNCT	NFP	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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hats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:t14:o4:1
# text = hats
1	hats	hat	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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