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title: Gas, what did the fox run off with? — Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrad… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gas, what did the fox run off with? Test 3 · ★ 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; Mova's choice 
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# Test 3 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the ani…

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Gas, what did the fox run off with?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Gas, fox · **What happens:** do, run off

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:t3:1
# text = Gas, what did the fox run off with?
1	Gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	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	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Gas |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **run off** | present | the fox |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the black cock with his feathers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:t3:o1:1
# text = the black cock with his feathers
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a duck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:t3:o2:1
# text = a duck
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a brown hen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:t3:o3:1
# text = a brown hen
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hen	hen	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 black cock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:t3:o4:1
# text = a black cock
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cock	cock	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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