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title: Yeah, but who covered them up when they croaked? — English Fairy Tales, The Children in t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yeah, but who covered them up when they croaked? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 252 «English Fairy Tales, The Children in the Wood: the uncle's wicked plot and the lost babes» 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 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Children in the Wood: the uncle's…

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Yeah, but who covered them up when they croaked?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** they · **What happens:** cover up, croak · **To what, where:** them

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 252 «English Fairy Tales, The Children in the Wood: the uncle's wicked plot and the lost babes» 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/252-pg14241-part19/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:252-pg14241-part19:t8:1
# text = Yeah, but who covered them up when they croaked?
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	croaked	croak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover up** | past |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination |
| 2 | **croak** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Robin Redbreast with leaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:252-pg14241-part19:t8:o1:1
# text = Robin Redbreast with leaves
1	Robin	Robin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Redbreast	Redbreast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bird with his green leaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:252-pg14241-part19:t8:o2:1
# text = Bird with his green leaves
1	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The wind with some moss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:252-pg14241-part19:t8:o3:1
# text = The wind with some moss
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	moss	moss	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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Robin Redbreast with leaves gathered from the wood floor and snow on top

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:252-pg14241-part19:t8:o4:1
# text = Robin Redbreast with leaves gathered from the wood floor and snow on top
1	Robin	Robin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Redbreast	Redbreast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | participle |  | leaves *not said here* |  | the wood floor and snow |  | on top | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from floor=Source |

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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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