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title: wait, which animal came for dinner, the ox or the boar? — Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, which animal came for dinner, the ox or the boar? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1647 «Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird, part 36: the youth reaches the moat round the church» 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 12 · ★ · Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird, part 36: the youth…

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wait, which animal came for dinner, the ox or the boar?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, come

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1647 «Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird, part 36: the youth reaches the moat round the church» 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/1647-pg5615-part36/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1647-pg5615-part36:t12:1
# text = wait, which animal came for dinner, the ox or the boar?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for dinner and the ox or the boar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 boar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1647-pg5615-part36:t12:o1:1
# text = the boar
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 griffin came

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1647-pg5615-part36:t12:o2:1
# text = the griffin came
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	griffin	griffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the griffin |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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the wild boar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1647-pg5615-part36:t12:o3:1
# text = the wild boar
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boar	boar	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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the red ox came

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1647-pg5615-part36:t12:o4:1
# text = the red ox came
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the red ox |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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