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title: Bet, which season was it when the brooks dried up? — Historical Tales, The King and His Haw… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bet, which season was it when the brooks dried up? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 354 «Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirsty king is kept from drinking by his pet hawk» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 5 · ★ · Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirst…

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Bet, which season was it when the brooks dried up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bet · **What happens:** be, dry up · **To what, where:** Bet, brooks

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 354 «Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirsty king is kept from drinking by his pet hawk» 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/354-pg18442-part14/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:t5:1
# text = Bet, which season was it when the brooks dried up?
1	Bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	brooks	brook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
10	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bet | Bet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dry up** | participle |  | the brooks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: 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 {#o1}

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fall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:t5:o1:1
# text = fall
1	fall	fall	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the wet spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:t5:o2:1
# text = the wet spring
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:t5:o3:1
# text = winter
1	winter	winter	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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the hot summer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:t5:o4:1
# text = the hot summer
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	summer	summer	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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