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title: Wait, what did the youngest brother spot on the birch? — Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what did the youngest brother spot on the birch? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1758 «Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan, part 9: the witch's rod, the brothers freed, a barber's secret» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Test 5 · ★ · Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of t…

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Wait, what did the youngest brother spot on the birch?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, do · **To what, where:** youngest brother spot, birch

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1758 «Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan, part 9: the witch's rod, the brothers freed, a barber's secret» 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/1758-pg641-part9/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1758-pg641-part9:t5:1
# text = Wait, what did the youngest brother spot on the birch?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
7	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 | **do** | past |  | the youngest brother spot |  | the birch |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=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}

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red stains on the moss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1758-pg641-part9:t5:o1:1
# text = red stains on the moss
1	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	stains	stain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a bloody cut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1758-pg641-part9:t5:o2:1
# text = a bloody cut
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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blood oozing out of the cut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1758-pg641-part9:t5:o3:1
# text = blood oozing out of the cut
1	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	oozing	ooze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ooze** | gerund | blood *not said here* |  |  | the cut |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out cut=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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blood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1758-pg641-part9:t5:o4:1
# text = blood
1	blood	blood	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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