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title: Who was it that said the cock sings, not the hen? — Sept Contes Roumains, Fet-Fruners, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was it that said the cock sings, not the hen? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1809 «Sept Contes Roumains, Fet-Fruners, the holy water and the emperor's end» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Sept Contes Roumains, Fet-Fruners, the holy water and the…

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Who was it that said the cock sings, not the hen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cock · **What happens:** be, sing · **To what, where:** hen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1809 «Sept Contes Roumains, Fet-Fruners, the holy water and the emperor's end» 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/1809-pg641-part60/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1809-pg641-part60:t9:1
# text = Who was it that said the cock sings, not the hen?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the cock | the hen |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Fet-Fruners

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1809-pg641-part60:t9:o1:1
# text = Fet-Fruners
1	Fet	Fet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Fruners	Fruners	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the old hermit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1809-pg641-part60:t9:o2:1
# text = the old hermit
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hermit	hermit	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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the wise old judge from the far village

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1809-pg641-part60:t9:o3:1
# text = the wise old judge from the far village
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the princess who was milking the mares in the ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1809-pg641-part60:t9:o4:1
# text = the princess who was milking the mares in the ice
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	milking	milk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mares	mare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **milk** | past · progressive | the princess | the mares |  | the ice |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Source |

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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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