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title: Sus, what did the fifth guy grab on the elephant? — Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goos… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sus, what did the fifth guy grab on the elephant? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 356 «Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the king naps under a tree and wakes at noon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 8 · ★ · Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the k…

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Sus, what did the fifth guy grab on the elephant?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sus · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** fifth guy grab

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 356 «Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the king naps under a tree and wakes at noon» 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/356-pg18442-part16/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:356-pg18442-part16:t8:1
# text = Sus, what did the fifth guy grab on the elephant?
1	Sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	grab	grab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Sus | the fifth guy grab |  |  |  | on the elephant | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grab=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The big ear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:356-pg18442-part16:t8:o1:1
# text = The big ear
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ear	ear	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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The big floppy ear by the head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:356-pg18442-part16:t8:o2:1
# text = The big floppy ear by the head
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	floppy	floppy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The trunk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:356-pg18442-part16:t8:o3:1
# text = The trunk
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trunk	trunk	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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The tusk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:356-pg18442-part16:t8:o4:1
# text = The tusk
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tusk	tusk	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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