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title: ok what set the boy's hair on fire? — Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonde… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok what set the boy's hair on fire? Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5…

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ok what set the boy's hair on fire?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** set · **To what, where:** hair, fire

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:t9:1
# text = ok what set the boy's hair on fire?
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past |  | the boy's hair |  | fire |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme on fire=Destination |

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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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an ember

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:t9:o1:1
# text = an ember
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ember	ember	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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a spark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:t9:o2:1
# text = a spark
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spark	spark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a cinder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:t9:o3:1
# text = a cinder
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cinder	cinder	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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a spark from the dying fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:t9:o4:1
# text = a spark from the dying fire
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spark	spark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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