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title: Lol, what were Browny and Whitey tied to? — Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what were Browny and Whitey tied to? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1887 «Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded in the kettle» 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 wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded…

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Lol, what were Browny and Whitey tied to?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Browny · **What happens:** be, tie · **To what, where:** Browny

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1887 «Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded in the kettle» 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/1887-pg7277-part24/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1887-pg7277-part24:t5:1
# text = Lol, what were Browny and Whitey tied to?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Browny	Browny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Whitey	Whitey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Browny and Whitey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tie** | past | Browny and Whitey |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 wooden fence rail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1887-pg7277-part24:t5:o1:1
# text = A wooden fence rail
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1887-pg7277-part24:t5:o2:1
# text = A tree
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tree	tree	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 fallen log nearby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1887-pg7277-part24:t5:o3:1
# text = A fallen log nearby
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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A stake in the ground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1887-pg7277-part24:t5:o4:1
# text = A stake in the ground
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stake	stake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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