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title: what did the newly fixed men gobble up, lol? — Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the newly fixed men gobble up, lol? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 2068 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 27: Ulysses wins back his men from the swine and sees the sea nymphs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 27: Ulysses wins ba…

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what did the newly fixed men gobble up, lol?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fixed men · **What happens:** fix, gobble up

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2068 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 27: Ulysses wins back his men from the swine and sees the sea nymphs» 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/2068-pg976-part27/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2068-pg976-part27:t12:1
# text = what did the newly fixed men gobble up, lol?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gobble	gobble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **gobble up** | past · do-support | the fixed men |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «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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ripe red apples from the orchard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2068-pg976-part27:t12:o1:1
# text = ripe red apples from the orchard
1	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	orchard	orchard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
acorns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2068-pg976-part27:t12:o2:1
# text = acorns
1	acorns	acorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
berries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2068-pg976-part27:t12:o3:1
# text = berries
1	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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sweet acorns and chestnuts from the oak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2068-pg976-part27:t12:o4:1
# text = sweet acorns and chestnuts from the oak
1	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	acorns	acorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	chestnuts	chestnut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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