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title: wait, which bird got eaten at the end? — Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a ta… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, which bird got eaten at the end? Test 9 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets…

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wait, which bird got eaten at the end?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, eat · **To what, where:** bird, end

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:578-pg2306-part14:t9:1
# text = wait, which bird got eaten at the end?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	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 | **eat** | past · passive |  | which bird |  |  | at the end |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the little tattling sparrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:578-pg2306-part14:t9:o1:1
# text = the little tattling sparrow
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	tattling	tattling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sparrow	sparrow	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 terrapin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:578-pg2306-part14:t9:o2:1
# text = the terrapin
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	terrapin	terrapin	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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the sneaky terrapin again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:578-pg2306-part14:t9:o3:1
# text = the sneaky terrapin again
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	terrapin	terrapin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the fat old rabbit too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:578-pg2306-part14:t9:o4:1
# text = the fat old rabbit too
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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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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