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title: Innit, what was he holding onto when the stag ran off? — Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Innit, what was he holding onto when the stag ran off? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1926 «Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shelters with a grumpy old man, a stag carries him underground, and he frees a maiden from a glass coffin» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the de
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# Test 8 · ★ · Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shel…

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Innit, what was he holding onto when the stag ran off?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Innit, stag · **What happens:** hold, run off

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1926 «Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shelters with a grumpy old man, a stag carries him underground, and he frees a maiden from a glass coffin» 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/1926-pg7277-part63/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1926-pg7277-part63:t8:1
# text = Innit, what was he holding onto when the stag ran off?
1	Innit	Innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · progressive | Innit |  |  |  |  | Innit *vocative* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **run off** | past | the stag |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 {#o1}

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the bull's long tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1926-pg7277-part63:t8:o1:1
# text = the bull's long tail
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the stag's great horns as it ran through the wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1926-pg7277-part63:t8:o2:1
# text = the stag's great horns as it ran through the wood
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | stag | the stag's great horns |  | the wood |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the stag's great horns and a branch of the old tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1926-pg7277-part63:t8:o3:1
# text = the stag's great horns and a branch of the old tree
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the stag's great horns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1926-pg7277-part63:t8:o4:1
# text = the stag's great horns
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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