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title: and the toads were actually kings' kids the whole time, wild? — Household Tales, The Iron Stove, the t… · tree and pragmatics
description: and the toads were actually kings' kids the whole time, wild? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1686 «Household Tales, The Iron Stove, the toad's gifts and the wedding» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wro
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# Test 12 · ★ · Household Tales, The Iron Stove, the toad's gifts and the…

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and the toads were actually kings' kids the whole time, wild?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** toads · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** kids

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1686 «Household Tales, The Iron Stove, the toad's gifts and the wedding» 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/1686-pg640-part10/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1686-pg640-part10:t12:1
# text = and the toads were actually kings' kids the whole time, wild?
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	toads	toad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the toads | kings's kids and the whole time |  |  |  | actually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the toads *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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yeah just normal toads

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1686-pg640-part10:t12:o1:1
# text = yeah just normal toads
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	toads	toad	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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yeah King's children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1686-pg640-part10:t12:o2:1
# text = yeah King's children
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	children	child	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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yeah, frogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1686-pg640-part10:t12:o3:1
# text = yeah, frogs
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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nah, frogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1686-pg640-part10:t12:o4:1
# text = nah, frogs
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	frogs	frog	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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