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title: wait, who did Mark set the dogs on? — Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonde… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, who did Mark set the dogs on? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1754 «Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5: the boy loses his cake and his head, then Mark the Rich plots against a baby» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 5 · ★ · Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5…

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wait, who did Mark set the dogs on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, set on · **To what, where:** dogs

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1754 «Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5: the boy loses his cake and his head, then Mark the Rich plots against a baby» 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/1754-pg641-part5/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:t5:1
# text = wait, who did Mark set the dogs on?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	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 | **set on** | past · do-support |  | the dogs |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient dog=Result |

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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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his men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:t5:o1:1
# text = his men
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 strangers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:t5:o2:1
# text = the strangers
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	strangers	stranger	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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the poor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:t5:o3:1
# text = the poor
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the beggars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:t5:o4:1
# text = the beggars
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beggars	beggar	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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