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title: Wait, what's the wren's mad tool for threshing? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what's the wren's mad tool for threshing? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 2017 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the king's son and the magic bundle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the…

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Wait, what's the wren's mad tool for threshing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, mad tool · **What happens:** wait, be, thresh · **To what, where:** mad tool

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2017 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the king's son and the magic bundle» 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/2017-pg7885-part36/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:t2:1
# text = Wait, what's the wren's mad tool for threshing?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wren	wren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tool	tool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	threshing	thresh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the wren's mad tool |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **thresh** | gerund | the wren's mad tool *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 spade, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:t2:o1:1
# text = a spade, mate
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spade	spade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a hoe, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:t2:o2:1
# text = a hoe, innit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hoe	hoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a stick, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:t2:o3:1
# text = a stick, innit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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 flail, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:t2:o4:1
# text = a flail, innit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flail	flail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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