--- title: how many tries did the fox make to get the bird to hop? — Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a ta… · tree and pragmatics description: how many tries did the fox make to get the bird to hop? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 578 «Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets eaten» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/578-pg2306-part14/t13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a ta…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/578-pg2306-part14/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets… how many tries did the fox make to get the bird to hop? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many tries, fox, bird · **What happens:** do, make, get, hop · **To what, where:** bird This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 578 «Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets eaten» 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/578-pg2306-part14/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:578-pg2306-part14:t13:1 # text = how many tries did the fox make to get the bird to hop? 1 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 tries try NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 hop hop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | many tries | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | the fox | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | the fox *not said here* | the bird | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hop** | to-infinitive | the bird *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} four spots: tail, back, head, tooth ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:578-pg2306-part14:t13:o1:1 # text = four spots: tail, back, head, tooth 1 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 4 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} four spots: tail, ear, back, nose ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:578-pg2306-part14:t13:o2:1 # text = four spots: tail, ear, back, nose 1 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 4 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} five spots: tail, back, head, ear, and finally the tooth ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:578-pg2306-part14:t13:o3:1 # text = five spots: tail, back, head, ear, and finally the tooth 1 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 4 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 finally finally ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} three spots: tail, back, tooth ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:578-pg2306-part14:t13:o4:1 # text = three spots: tail, back, tooth 1 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 4 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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