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title: Proper question, who was the girl in the fishing hut, the one everyo… — Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper question, who was the girl in the fishing hut, the one everyone called Seagull? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1899 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Ludovine from the goblins, sleeps through his chances, and is carried off to the Low Countries.» of the books course of Mova's prim
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# Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Lud…

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Proper question, who was the girl in the fishing hut, the one everyone called Seagull?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Proper question · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** girl, fishing hut · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1899 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Ludovine from the goblins, sleeps through his chances, and is carried off to the Low Countries.» 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/1899-pg7277-part36/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1899-pg7277-part36:t7:1
# text = Proper question, who was the girl in the fishing hut, the one everyone called Seagull?
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	conj	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	Seagull	Seagull	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Proper question | the girl |  | the fishing hut |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a young girl mending a net

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1899-pg7277-part36:t7:o1:1
# text = a young girl mending a net
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	mending	mend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mend** | gerund | a young girl *not said here* | a net |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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an old woman sewing sails

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1899-pg7277-part36:t7:o2:1
# text = an old woman sewing sails
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	sewing	sew	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | gerund | a old woman *not said here* | sails |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a boy fixing an old boat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1899-pg7277-part36:t7:o3:1
# text = a boy fixing an old boat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	fixing	fix	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | gerund | a boy *not said here* | a old boat |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent boat=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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an old fisherman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1899-pg7277-part36:t7:o4:1
# text = an old fisherman
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fisherman	fisherman	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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