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title: so what's the stick for, yeah? — Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: P… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what's the stick for, yeah? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1902 «Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches a crowd and the Princess laughs at last» 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 wr
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# Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches…

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so what's the stick for, yeah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** stick

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1902 «Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches a crowd and the Princess laughs at last» 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/1902-pg7277-part39/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1902-pg7277-part39:t10:1
# text = so what's the stick for, yeah?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the stick |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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to poke the bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1902-pg7277-part39:t10:o1:1
# text = to poke the bird
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	poke	poke	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poke** | to-infinitive |  | the bird |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent bird=Instrument |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to tie the swan to a tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1902-pg7277-part39:t10:o2:1
# text = to tie the swan to a tree
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	tie	tie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | to-infinitive |  | the swan |  |  |  | to a tree | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent swan=Patient to tree=Co-Patient |

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

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to touch the swan and free everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1902-pg7277-part39:t10:o3:1
# text = to touch the swan and free everyone
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | to-infinitive |  | the swan |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme swan=Co-Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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to scare off the swan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1902-pg7277-part39:t10:o4:1
# text = to scare off the swan
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	scare	scare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scare off** | to-infinitive |  | the swan |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus swan=Experiencer |

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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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