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title: no cap what did he write his story on? — Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charn… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap what did he write his story on? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 361 «Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charney's plant is saved, and Mignon dances» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charney's plant is saved,…

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no cap what did he write his story on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** write · **To what, where:** cap

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 361 «Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charney's plant is saved, and Mignon dances» 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/361-pg18442-part21/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:361-pg18442-part21:t5:1
# text = no cap what did he write his story on?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past · do-support | he | no cap |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient story=Topic |

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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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his hankie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:361-pg18442-part21:t5:o1:1
# text = his hankie
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hankie	hankie	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 bit of paper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:361-pg18442-part21:t5:o2:1
# text = a bit of paper
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	paper	paper	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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his hankie he folded twice and smoothed out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:361-pg18442-part21:t5:o3:1
# text = his hankie he folded twice and smoothed out
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hankie	hankie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	folded	fold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	smoothed	smooth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fold** | past | his hankie |  |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **smooth out** | participle | his hankie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a loose sheet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:361-pg18442-part21:t5:o4:1
# text = a loose sheet
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sheet	sheet	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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