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title: Why'd Burd Ellen go missing? — English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why'd Burd Ellen go missing? Test 7 · ★ 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 que
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# Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tr…

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Why'd Burd Ellen go missing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Burd · **What happens:** go

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t7:1
# text = Why'd Burd Ellen go missing?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	Burd	Burd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | would | Burd |  |  |  |  | missing *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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She went round the church backwards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t7:o1:1
# text = She went round the church backwards
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | She |  |  | the church |  | backwards *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round church=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She went round the well sideways

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t7:o2:1
# text = She went round the well sideways
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | She |  |  | the well |  | sideways *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round well=Initial\_Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fairies took her from the kirk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t7:o3:1
# text = Fairies took her from the kirk
1	Fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kirk	kirk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Fairies | her *= she* |  | the kirk |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme from kirk=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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She went round the church backwards three times at midnight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t7:o4:1
# text = She went round the church backwards three times at midnight
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | She |  |  | the church | midnight; time | backwards *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round church=Initial\_Location |

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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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