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title: Who got the big dog off them, a random or a servant? — Pink Fairy Book, The Cat's Elopement,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who got the big dog off them, a random or a servant? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1612 «Pink Fairy Book, The Cat's Elopement, part 1: Gon and Koma run away, but a big dog splits them up» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 5 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, The Cat's Elopement, part 1: Gon and Koma…

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Who got the big dog off them, a random or a servant?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** big dog

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1612 «Pink Fairy Book, The Cat's Elopement, part 1: Gon and Koma run away, but a big dog splits them up» 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/1612-pg5615-part1/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1612-pg5615-part1:t5:1
# text = Who got the big dog off them, a random or a servant?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	random	random	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past |  | the big dog |  |  |  | off them *= they* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus |

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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 {#o1}

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A brave knight who lives in the castle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1612-pg5615-part1:t5:o1:1
# text = A brave knight who lives in the castle
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | a brave knight |  |  | the castle |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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A stable boy from town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1612-pg5615-part1:t5:o2:1
# text = A stable boy from town
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A servant of the princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1612-pg5615-part1:t5:o3:1
# text = A servant of the princess
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A servant of the princess's old aunt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1612-pg5615-part1:t5:o4:1
# text = A servant of the princess's old aunt
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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