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title: Mad that the eagle died after losing its feet, yeah? — Fairy Tales, The Glass Mountain: a sch… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mad that the eagle died after losing its feet, yeah? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1704 «Fairy Tales, The Glass Mountain: a schoolboy climbs with lynx claws, cuts the eagle's feet, and wins the Princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Glass Mountain: a schoolboy climbs with l…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mad that the eagle died after losing its feet, yeah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** eagle · **What happens:** die, lose · **To what, where:** feet

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1704 «Fairy Tales, The Glass Mountain: a schoolboy climbs with lynx claws, cuts the eagle's feet, and wins the Princess» 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/1704-pg640-part28/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1704-pg640-part28:t8:1
# text = Mad that the eagle died after losing its feet, yeah?
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | the eagle |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **lose** | gerund | the eagle *not said here* | eagle's feet |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it could not fly anymore

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1704-pg640-part28:t8:o1:1
# text = Yeah, it could not fly anymore
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	anymore	anymore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fly** | could | it |  |  |  |  | anymore *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, without its feet it could no longer lift the heavy gold up off the mountain

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1704-pg640-part28:t8:o2:1
# text = Yeah, without its feet it could no longer lift the heavy gold up off the mountain
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	no	no	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	lift	lift	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift up** | could | its feet | the heavy gold |  | the mountain |  | long *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gold=Theme off mountain=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it was very sad and sorry, but it could never fly the treasure home again

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1704-pg640-part28:t8:o3:1
# text = Yeah, it was very sad and sorry, but it could never fly the treasure home again
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **fly** | could | it | the treasure |  |  | again | home *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location treasure=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it couldn't carry the gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1704-pg640-part28:t8:o4:1
# text = Yeah, it couldn't carry the gold
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **carry** | could | it | the gold |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |

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