--- title: what did the Wind's son eat, mate? — Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a… · tree and pragmatics description: what did the Wind's son eat, mate? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 1896 «Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses his magic box and goes looking for it across the sky» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1896-pg7277-part33/t14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1896-pg7277-part33/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses hi… what did the Wind's son eat, mate? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** son · **What happens:** eat This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1896 «Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses his magic box and goes looking for it across the sky» 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/1896-pg7277-part33/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:t14:1 # text = what did the Wind's son eat, mate? 1 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Wind Wind PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past · do-support | the Wind's son | | | | | mate *vocative* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | 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 {#o1} all the food he saw ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:t14:o1:1 # text = all the food he saw 1 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 3 det:predet _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | he | all food *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} the barrels ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:t14:o2:1 # text = the barrels 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 barrels barrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} whatever came near him ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:t14:o3:1 # text = whatever came near him 1 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 2 nsubj _ _ 2 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 near near ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | whatever | | | | | near him *= he* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near he=Location | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} everything he saw ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:t14:o4:1 # text = everything he saw 1 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 0 root _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | he | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | **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. 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