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title: Why did Henny-penny bolt home? — English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did Henny-penny bolt home? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1960 «English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tricks the chicken-crew into his cave, and Childe Rowland enters the Dark Tower of Elfland» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tr…

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Why did Henny-penny bolt home?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1960 «English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tricks the chicken-crew into his cave, and Childe Rowland enters the Dark Tower of Elfland» 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/1960-pg7439-part19/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t3:1
# text = Why did Henny-penny bolt home?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
3	Henny	Henny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bolt	bolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Cause it started raining hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t3:o1:1
# text = Cause it started raining hard
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	raining	rain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **rain** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cause the fox was laughing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t3:o2:1
# text = Cause the fox was laughing
1	Cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **laugh** | past · progressive | the fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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Cause Cocky-locky shouted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t3:o3:1
# text = Cause Cocky-locky shouted
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Cocky	Cocky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	locky	locky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	shouted	shout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | cause Cocky | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cause the fox came out of the hole and bit her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t3:o4:1
# text = Cause the fox came out of the hole and bit her
1	Cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bit	bite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **come out** | past | the Cause fox | the hole |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hole=Result |
| 3 | **bite** | past | the Cause fox *not said here* | fox |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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