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title: Proper spooky, what did the farm folk reckon was going on? — Fairy Tales, The Dirty Shepherdess: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper spooky, what did the farm folk reckon was going on? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1903 «Fairy Tales, The Dirty Shepherdess: a King's youngest daughter hides in rags, works as a shepherdess, and wins a Prince with a lost ring.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Dirty Shepherdess: a King's youngest daug…

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Proper spooky, what did the farm folk reckon was going on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** folk reckon · **What happens:** do, go on

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1903 «Fairy Tales, The Dirty Shepherdess: a King's youngest daughter hides in rags, works as a shepherdess, and wins a Prince with a lost ring.» 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/1903-pg7277-part40/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1903-pg7277-part40:t8:1
# text = Proper spooky, what did the farm folk reckon was going on?
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	spooky	spooky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	reckon	reckon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go on** | past · progressive | the folk reckon |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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black magic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1903-pg7277-part40:t8:o1:1
# text = black magic
1	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	magic	magic	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 fairy spell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1903-pg7277-part40:t8:o2:1
# text = a fairy spell
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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witchcraft

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1903-pg7277-part40:t8:o3:1
# text = witchcraft
1	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a curse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1903-pg7277-part40:t8:o4:1
# text = a curse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	curse	curse	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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