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title: Fr, what were his sandals tied with? — Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fr, what were his sandals tied with? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 2076 «Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece, part 35: Proserpina returns, then Jason reaches a raging river» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 10 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece,…

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Fr, what were his sandals tied with?

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

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2076 «Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece, part 35: Proserpina returns, then Jason reaches a raging river» 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/2076-pg976-part35/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2076-pg976-part35:t10:1
# text = Fr, what were his sandals tied with?
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sandals	sandal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
7	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Fr | his sandals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tie** | participle |  | his sandals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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Leather thongs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2076-pg976-part35:t10:o1:1
# text = Leather thongs
1	Leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	thongs	thong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Silver chains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2076-pg976-part35:t10:o2:1
# text = Silver chains
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Leather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2076-pg976-part35:t10:o3:1
# text = Leather
1	Leather	leather	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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Strings of gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2076-pg976-part35:t10:o4:1
# text = Strings of gold
1	Strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	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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