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title: Wait, so what's the tadpole riddle answer, proper deep? — English Fairy Tales, The King of Engla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, so what's the tadpole riddle answer, proper deep? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 254 «English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Sons, part 1: Jack rides off for golden apples and meets three strange old men» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Son…

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Wait, so what's the tadpole riddle answer, proper deep?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 254 «English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Sons, part 1: Jack rides off for golden apples and meets three strange old men» 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/254-pg14241-part21/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:t3:1
# text = Wait, so what's the tadpole riddle answer, proper deep?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	tadpole	tadpole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	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** | present |  |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | 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 frog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:t3:o1:1
# text = A frog
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A beetle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:t3:o2:1
# text = A beetle
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A tadpole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:t3:o3:1
# text = A tadpole
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tadpole	tadpole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A salmon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:t3:o4:1
# text = A salmon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	salmon	salmon	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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