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title: Yo, what did the fox use to blind the dragon, innit? — pg641, the prince and his beasts, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what did the fox use to blind the dragon, innit? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1757 «pg641, the prince and his beasts, part 8: the prince is killed and a crow brings him back to life» 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 3 · ★ · pg641, the prince and his beasts, part 8: the prince is ki…

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Yo, what did the fox use to blind the dragon, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fox · **What happens:** use, innit · **To what, where:** blind dragon

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1757 «pg641, the prince and his beasts, part 8: the prince is killed and a crow brings him back to life» 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/1757-pg641-part8/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1757-pg641-part8:t3:1
# text = Yo, what did the fox use to blind the dragon, innit?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · do-support | the fox | the blind dragon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive | the fox *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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a bucket of salty river mud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1757-pg641-part8:t3:o1:1
# text = a bucket of salty river mud
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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salt water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1757-pg641-part8:t3:o2:1
# text = salt water
1	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	water	water	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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boiling soup from the kitchen pot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1757-pg641-part8:t3:o3:1
# text = boiling soup from the kitchen pot
1	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | gerund |  | soup |  | the kitchen pot |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent soup=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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holy water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1757-pg641-part8:t3:o4:1
# text = holy water
1	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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