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title: Sound, what did the dog have tied to his tail? — Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrad… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sound, what did the dog have tied to his tail? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 2002 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the animals chase the robbers out of their house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 2 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the ani…

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Sound, what did the dog have tied to his tail?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sound · **What happens:** do, tie · **To what, where:** dog, Sound

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2002 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the animals chase the robbers out of their house» 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/2002-pg7885-part21/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:t2:1
# text = Sound, what did the dog have tied to his tail?
1	Sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Sound | the dog |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tie** | present · perfect · passive |  | Sound |  |  |  | to dog's tail | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to tail=Co-Patient |

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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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a bucket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:t2:o1:1
# text = a bucket
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bucket	bucket	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 tin kettle full of hot water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:t2:o2:1
# text = a tin kettle full of hot water
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a heavy iron cooking kettle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:t2:o3:1
# text = a heavy iron cooking kettle
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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a kettle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:t2:o4:1
# text = a kettle
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kettle	kettle	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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