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title: Howay, what was the thing she ended up dragging home? — English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Howay, what was the thing she ended up dragging home? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 243 «English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's black pot turns from gold to silver to iron to stone, and then into a horse-sized kow» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's bl…

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Howay, what was the thing she ended up dragging home?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Howay · **What happens:** be, end up, drag · **To what, where:** thing

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 243 «English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's black pot turns from gold to silver to iron to stone, and then into a horse-sized kow» 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/243-pg14241-part10/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:243-pg14241-part10:t3:1
# text = Howay, what was the thing she ended up dragging home?
1	Howay	Howay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	dragging	drag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Howay | the thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **end up** | past | Howay | the thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient thing=Result |
| 3 | **drag** | gerund | Howay *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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a stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:243-pg14241-part10:t3:o1:1
# text = a stone
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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a lump of iron

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:243-pg14241-part10:t3:o2:1
# text = a lump of iron
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a lump of lead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:243-pg14241-part10:t3:o3:1
# text = a lump of lead
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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rust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:243-pg14241-part10:t3:o4:1
# text = rust
1	rust	rust	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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